Bomb Baby
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ISBN10: 1926617045
ISBN13: 9781926617046
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 31 2010
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781926617046
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 31 2010
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The bomb baby was in Hiroshima, in utero, at the moment of the glamorous detonation. As a result of prenatal exposure to gamma rays, he is tiny and mentally deficient, but his physical vigor is unimpaired. Living on a makeshift raft on the river that runs through town, he only comes ashore to disrupt high-tone weddings at Hiroshima Cathedral. It's a hobby for him. He disappears soon after spoiling a Yakuza wedding. This doesn't sit well with the leading lights of the expatriate community, who've adopted the bomb baby as a mascot. They dispatch Sam Edwine, a reluctant and inefficient American slob, to search Boom Town's sordid and musty places, of which there is a wide assortment...
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