false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181051404m/1106817.jpg 277536 5 Prentis, the narrator of this nightmarish novel, catalogs "dead crimes" for a branch of the London Police Department and suspects that he is going crazy. His files keep vanishing. His boss subjects him to cryptic taunts. His family despises him. And as Prentis desperately tries to hold on to the scraps of his sanity, he uncovers a conspiracy of blackmail and betrayal that extends from his department and into the buried past of his father, a war hero code-named "Shuttlecock"--and, lately, a resident of a hospital for the insane. 1093756 1981 Shuttlecock total:56|5:4|4:19|3:25|2:6|1:2| 56 185 77 4 4 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 07:24:50 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 07:44:36 -0700 2009 Shuttlecock delves inside the mind of an unhappy and perhaps paranoid archivist who works in the dead cases archives of the London police department. Writing in the first person as Prentis, the archivist, Swift examines relatio...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 14:05:34 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 14:11:30 -0700 2009 Waterland and Last Orders, which and more like a more conventional kind of mystery or thriller (albeit a thriller that's deeply focused on characters haunted by guilt over their past actions). more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 12 18:56:15 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 18:58:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 04 08:26:57 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 08:29:10 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Nov 24 11:19:53 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 11:19:53 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Nov 18 21:50:42 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 21:50:42 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Oct 02 09:11:45 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 09:11:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 19 19:37:06 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 19:37:06 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Sep 04 09:40:35 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 09:40:35 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Aug 12 21:40:19 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 21:40:19 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jul 30 05:50:43 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 05:50:43 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Jul 06 13:35:56 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 13:35:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 17 08:29:27 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 08:29:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 15 09:37:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 09:37:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 17 02:12:12 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 02:12:12 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed May 13 14:46:56 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 14:46:56 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 10 19:35:09 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 19:35:09 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Apr 27 11:49:16 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 11:49:16 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Apr 13 03:21:11 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 03:21:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 30 10:00:45 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 10:00:45 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1106817