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The coincidence engine

A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in the back-country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician vanishes in the French Pyrenees. And the thuggish operatives of a multinational arms conglomerate close in on Alex Smart - a harmless Cambridge postgraduate who has set off to ask his American girlfriend to marry him. At the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable - an organisation so secret, many of its operatives aren't a hundred per cent sure it exists - Red Queen takes an interest. What ensues is a chaotic chase across an imaginary America, haunted by madness, murder, mistaken identity, and vast amounts of unhealthy but delicious snacks. The Coincidence Engine exists. And it has started to work.

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  • "A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and, in the back-country of Alabama assembles a passenger jet out of old bean cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician - last heard of investigating the physics of free will and ranting about the devil - vanishes in the French Pyrenees. And the thuggish operatives of a multinational arms conglomerate are closing in on Alex Smart - a harmless Cambridge postgraduate who has set off with hope in his heart and a ring in his pocket to ask his American girlfriend to marry him."
  • "When a hurricane assembles a passenger jet out of junkyard waste, the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable is fascinated and sets into motion a chase across America that is haunted by murder, madness, and mistaken identity."
  • "Fröhlicher britischer Irrwitz von höchster Brillanz Die Zufallsmaschine macht Unmögliches wahrscheinlich. Angeblich erfunden von einem exzentrischen Mathematikgenie, galt die Existenz dieses Geräts eigentlich als undenkbar, bis sich die unerklärlichen Ereignisse häufen. Dass ein Wirbelsturm aus dem Inventar eines Schrottplatzes ein Passagierflugzeug zusammensetzt, ist erst der Anfang. Die wachsende Zahl bizarrer Zufälle ruft sowohl ein internationales Waffenkonglomerat als auch das "Direktorat des extrem Unwahrscheinlichen" auf den Plan, eine Behörde, die so geheim ist, dass selbst ihre Mitarbeiter nicht sicher sind, ob sie tatsächlich existiert. Beide hoffen, die Zufallsmaschine in ihren Besitz zu bringen. Man vermutet, dass der ahnungslose englische Student Alex Smart, der sich derzeit in Amerika aufhält, die Maschine bei sich hat. Und so beginnt eine wilde Jagd quer durch die Vereinigten Staaten, voll kurioser Begebenheiten und geradezu unglaublicher Fügungen."
  • "A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in the back-country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician vanishes in the French Pyrenees. And the thuggish operatives of a multinational arms conglomerate close in on Alex Smart - a harmless Cambridge postgraduate who has set off to ask his American girlfriend to marry him. At the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable - an organisation so secret, many of its operatives aren't a hundred per cent sure it exists - Red Queen takes an interest. What ensues is a chaotic chase across an imaginary America, haunted by madness, murder, mistaken identity, and vast amounts of unhealthy but delicious snacks. The Coincidence Engine exists. And it has started to work."
  • "A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in the back-country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician vanishes in the French Pyrenees. And the thuggish operatives of a multinational arms conglomerate close in on Alex Smart - a harmless Cambridge postgraduate who has set off to ask his American girlfriend to marry him. At the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable - an organisation so secret, many of its operatives aren't a hundred per cent sure it exists - Red Queen takes an interest. What ensues is a chaotic chase across an imaginary America, haunted by madness, murder, mistaken identity, and vast amounts of unhealthy but delicious snacks. The Coincidence Engine exists. And it has started to work."@en

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Magic realism (Literature)"@en

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  • "The coincidence engine : a novel"
  • "The coincidence engine"
  • "The coincidence engine"@en
  • "Die Zufallsmaschine Roman"
  • "Die Zufallsmaschine : Roman"
  • "The Coincidence Engine"
  • "The coincidence engine a novel"

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