Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Lucy Hawking the law is rarely about

the law is rarely about guilt or innocence

a game whose stakes spike dangerously when a figure from his past reappears - someone who knows secrets about him that he had hoped were buried forever

this hauntingly believable story stands out as one of the great novels of our times

As these three grow closer while attempting to put their lives in order

It was the biggest security blunder in the agency’s history

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Lucy Hawking the law is rarely aboutA narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post modern manifesto all rolled into one, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami