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A Comedy of Justice

Hardcover, 376 pages

English language

Published Sept. 23, 1984 by Del Rey.

ISBN:
9780345316493
OCLC Number:
10507672
ISFDB ID:
1684

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Whoever — or whatever — obviously never intended to let Alex get back home to Kansas.

It all began with that firewalking gig in Polynesia. After negotiating the bed of hot coals with only a small blister, he suddenly found the world changed around him. Instead of being Alexander Hergensheimer, minister of a fundamentalist church, he was now supposed to be Alec Graham, carrying underworld money and in the middle of an affair with the charming stewardess, Margrethe — the only good thing about the whole business.

Then there was the impossible iceberg that struck the ship and dumped Alex and Margrethe naked into the sea, to be rescued by a Royal Mexican Coast Guard plane. The next change took a double earthquake. And after that, as change followed impossible change, things went from bad to worse. Alex found it impossible even to buy Margrethe the hot fudge sundae that …

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