Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() The protagonist, Lester Ferris, is a childless former soldier just shy of 40, who has been sent to the island of Mancreu. Tigerman may be – very broadly – realistic, but it asks similar questions about damaged heroism and idealistic villainy. There have been more and more superhero novels of late, from Lavie Tidhar's The Violent Century to Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible, as well as graphic forms becoming more self-conscious and self-critical (Mark Millar's Superior and Jupiter's Legacy and Rob Williams's The Royals: Masters of War, for example). ![]() That said, it is also his take on the superhero novel. Tigerman is the same in many ways, though the empathy is more plangent and the ideas more frightening. ![]() He manages a very delicate balance, in that the books are gloriously exuberant and entertaining (I hope they were as terrifically fun to write as to read), but also emotionally affecting and intellectually satisfying. ![]() W ith his first two novels, The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker, Nick Harkaway swiftly established himself as a writer of prodigious imagination, with the capacity to combine hi-jinks plotting with high concepts: we've had ninjas, pirates, octogenarian spies, leagues of undertakers and mechanical bees that might induce the apocalypse. ![]()
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