| Genre: | Fiction |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | January 01, 2011 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780552777575 |
| ISBN10: | 0552777579 |
| Pages: | 432 |
| Dimensions: | 4.33 x 7.01 x 1.02 inches |
| Weight: | 209.79 g |
About the Book
What if teleportation was really possible? Englishman Richie Fisher is about to find out … Richie and his wife Clara have won a weekend in New York in a newspaper competition. While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine. It looks nothing like the open-plan teleporter on Captain Kirkâ€s Starship Enterprise; in fact, it seems more like a glorified microwave oven.Richie places his burger inside, hits the return key on the linked-up computer - and the burger disappears. But if he can teleport a half-eaten veggie-burger, what else could you do with the machine? For criminals, the possibilities are endless. Who could catch you if you beamed drugs into nostrils a hundred miles away? And how much would illegal immigrants pay to be teleported into the rich host country of their choice? Richie buys a teleporter and takes it back to England, where the chaos begins ...