Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame, the usual people tried to claim responsibility. This media does not have any additional notes listed.The second Dirk Gently book by Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a witty detective story perfect for fans of his phenomenally successful The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. During his investigation, Gently encounters exploding airport check-in counters, the gods of Norse mythology, insulting horoscopes, a sinister nursing home, a rhino-phagic eagle, an I Ching calculator (to which everything calculated above the value of 4 is apparently 'a suffusion of yellow'), an omnipotent being who gives his powers to a lawyer and an advertising executive in exchange for clean linen, and an attractive American woman who gets angry when she can't get pizza delivered in London. Nearly incapacitated by guilt, Dirk resolves to take his now-late client's wild claims seriously. However, after Dirk disconnects the television set the boy had been watching, the boy promptly breaks Dirk's nose. While at his recently deceased client's house, he discovers that his client had a son. The aforementioned client is found in a sealed and heavily barricaded room, his head neatly removed several feet from his body and rotating on a turntable. The seriousness of his client's claims becomes clear when Dirk arrives several hours late for an appointment to find a swarm of police around his client's estate. Dirk pretends to understand the man's ravings involving potatoes and a contract signed in blood coming due when in reality, Dirk is musing about what he might do if he actually receives payment for his "services" – such as getting rid of ], which is so filthy inside that it has become the centrepiece of a showdown between himself and his cleaning woman. A wealthy man in the record industry has retained him, spinning a story about being stalked by a seven-foot-tall, green-eyed, scythe-wielding monster. This media does not have a history recorded yet.ĭirk Gently, who calls himself a " holistic detective", has happened upon what he thinks is a rather comfortable situation.
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