Toploader

(Paperback)

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Flora is a plucky teenage girl.

Cobra is a double agent.

Flint Driscoll is a reporter.

Captain Smith is a military man.

Moon is a bored drone pilot.

Daddy Jesus is an inflictor of pain.

All they have in common is a very stupid war.

Reviews

'darkly enjoyable war-com romp ... one absurdist delight follows another in rapid succession' Guardian. * Guardian *
'O'Loughlin's aims are worthy, his targets apt, and his descriptions of a war zone evocative' Independent on Sunday. * Independent on Sunday *
'Hilarious stuff - very Dr Strangelove' Irish Times. * Irish Times *
'Cynical, funny, harrowing and revelatory' Sunday Business Post. * Sunday Business Post *
'Ingenious ... Wonderfully rich' Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph *
'Ex-war reporter O'Loughlin's darkly comic thriller highlighting the hypocrisy and absurdities of the 'war against terror' is set in a dystopian future that feels all too familiar' Seven magazine. * Seven magazine *

Author Bio

Ed O'Loughlin grew up in Kildare town, Ireland, where he moved from his native Toronto, Canada, aged six. His first novel, Not Untrue & Not Unkind was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009 and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. His second novel, Toploader, a darkly comic vision of the "war against terror", was published by Quercus in 2011. His third novel, Minds of Winter, was published in August 2016. He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.