The Third Policeman The Harvill Press James - Telegraph

James - Telegraph

Philip Henshers moving and timely new novel

But this easy going charm hides his razor sharp eye for detail

he must question who he can trust – and who he must fight

The Third Policeman The Harvill Press James - TelegraphThe Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel follows him and his adventures in a two dimensional police station where, through the theories of the scientist philosopher de Selby, he is introduced to "Atomic Theory" and its relation to bicycles, the existence of eternity (which turns out to be just