David Langford The Leaky Establishment First and 12 similar items

THE LEAKEY ESTABLISHMENT by David Langford London: Frederick Muller Limited, (1984). First edition. SIGNED and dated (1987) by the author with "all the radioactive best." Mild age-toning to the text, as usual, else fine; in a near fine dust jacket. David Langford draws upon his first job as a physicist at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire from 1975 to 1980, to create a comic novel about the bomb. "Roy Tappen borrows a filing cabinet from work to use at home and unknowingly also takes home a plutonium warhead. He spends the rest of the book trying to infiltrate the warhead back where it belongs without Security or his boss discovering it ever left the facility. Tappen soon explains why his warhead in its aluminum jacket is no more dangerous than a lot of household items. From then on Langford is free to treat the plutonium core like any of the other humorous icons whose appearance at the right moment in the story is good for a chuckle. Jokes are set up and triggered in the deft Langford style, at the pace of about a joke per paragraph."--Mike Glyer. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.