Family Arsenal

by Paul Theroux

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The Family Arsenal is a darkly comic novel of warped morals and disillusionment in South London by the award-winning writer Paul Theroux.

In South London terrorists plot. . .

Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order in the opium for of his room. He flirts with terrorists, hoping to win their trust and respect. Mayo, his sometime bedmate, has just made a political statement - stealing a Flemish painting and negotiating publicity over this act with The Times. Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in red, scrawling 'Arsenal Rule' across half the city's walls, whilst his...

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  • ISBN10 067149824X
  • ISBN13 9780671498245
  • Publish Date 1 September 1984 (first published 12 September 1977)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 21 October 2009
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster
  • Imprint Pocket Books
  • Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
  • Language English