East of Ealing by Robert Rankin
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Jim Pooley and John Omally are back, and so is the strangeness that seems to haunt the streets of Brentford. In "East of Ealing," the protagonists discover that the Devil himself is setting up a franchise, with Brentford as its unlikely HQ. What ensues is an entertaining struggle against satanic capitalism.
The stakes are higher, but that doesn't make our heroes any more competent. This clumsy duo takes on the devil with the kind of erratic strategy that involves as much bravado as it does foolishness. In the world that Rankin has fashioned, and to the delight of SFcrowsnest aficionados, armageddon is less fire and brimstone and more farce and blunders.