SpecOps
SpecOps is a fictional overarching British governmental force in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series of novels. It was established in 1928 to handle policing duties "too unusual or too specialized" to be handled by the regular police. The force and divisions are similar in name (for example SO27) to the real world Specialist Operations of the Metropolitan Police Service. When introduced in The Eyre Affair, the divisions are described as "Below the Eight, Above the Law". Known SpecOps divisions * SpecOps 1: The division that polices SpecOps itself. * SpecOps 2: Weird''er'' Stuff (aliens according to an unpublished chapter of The Eyre Affair), may be Thought Police. * SpecOps 3: Office for Alternate Universe Travel (as opposed to time travel) a.k.a. Weird Stuff The Eyre Affair. * SpecOps 4: SpecOps 4 is "pretty much the same" as SpecOps 5, but after a different target. * SpecOps 5: Search & Containment. SpecOps 5 is given a man to track until "found and contained" (a euphemism fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Mycroft Next
The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde currently consists of the novels ''The Eyre Affair'', '' Lost in a Good Book'', '' The Well of Lost Plots'', '' Something Rotten'', '' First Among Sequels'', '' One of Our Thursdays Is Missing'' and '' The Woman Who Died a Lot''. ''The Eyre Affair'' Victor Analogy In his seventies, Analogy is the head of the Swindon branch of SO-27, the LiteraTecs, and is therefore Thursday's immediate superior. Bowden Cable An operative for SO-27, the LiteraTecs, assigned to the Swindon branch, and Thursday's partner after her transfer. In his thirties and with a slightly fussy, nervous edge to him, Bowden is intelligent and, at times, quite sly and cunning. He was responsible for thwarting the plans of Jack Schitt and the Goliath Corporation when he substituted a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" in place of the weapons manual that Schitt thought he was accessing. He shares his name with the braking cable on bicycles. Another character is ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Characters In The Thursday Next Series
The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde currently consists of the novels '' The Eyre Affair'', '' Lost in a Good Book'', '' The Well of Lost Plots'', '' Something Rotten'', '' First Among Sequels'', '' One of Our Thursdays Is Missing'' and '' The Woman Who Died a Lot''. ''The Eyre Affair'' Victor Analogy In his seventies, Analogy is the head of the Swindon branch of SO-27, the LiteraTecs, and is therefore Thursday's immediate superior. Bowden Cable An operative for SO-27, the LiteraTecs, assigned to the Swindon branch, and Thursday's partner after her transfer. In his thirties and with a slightly fussy, nervous edge to him, Bowden is intelligent and, at times, quite sly and cunning. He was responsible for thwarting the plans of Jack Schitt and the Goliath Corporation when he substituted a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" in place of the weapons manual that Schitt thought he was accessing. He shares his name with the braking cable on bicycles. Another character is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Acheron Hades
The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde currently consists of the novels ''The Eyre Affair'', '' Lost in a Good Book'', '' The Well of Lost Plots'', '' Something Rotten'', '' First Among Sequels'', '' One of Our Thursdays Is Missing'' and '' The Woman Who Died a Lot''. ''The Eyre Affair'' Victor Analogy In his seventies, Analogy is the head of the Swindon branch of SO-27, the LiteraTecs, and is therefore Thursday's immediate superior. Bowden Cable An operative for SO-27, the LiteraTecs, assigned to the Swindon branch, and Thursday's partner after her transfer. In his thirties and with a slightly fussy, nervous edge to him, Bowden is intelligent and, at times, quite sly and cunning. He was responsible for thwarting the plans of Jack Schitt and the Goliath Corporation when he substituted a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" in place of the weapons manual that Schitt thought he was accessing. He shares his name with the braking cable on bicycles. Another character is ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Aornis Hades
The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde currently consists of the novels ''The Eyre Affair'', '' Lost in a Good Book'', ''The Well of Lost Plots'', '' Something Rotten'', '' First Among Sequels'', '' One of Our Thursdays Is Missing'' and '' The Woman Who Died a Lot''. ''The Eyre Affair'' Victor Analogy In his seventies, Analogy is the head of the Swindon branch of SO-27, the LiteraTecs, and is therefore Thursday's immediate superior. Bowden Cable An operative for SO-27, the LiteraTecs, assigned to the Swindon branch, and Thursday's partner after her transfer. In his thirties and with a slightly fussy, nervous edge to him, Bowden is intelligent and, at times, quite sly and cunning. He was responsible for thwarting the plans of Jack Schitt and the Goliath Corporation when he substituted a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" in place of the weapons manual that Schitt thought he was accessing. He shares his name with the braking cable on bicycles. Another character is cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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First Among Sequels
''First Among Sequels'' is an alternate history, comic fantasy novel by the British author Jasper Fforde. It is the fifth Thursday Next novel, first published on 5 July 2007 in the United Kingdom, and on 24 July 2007 in the United States. The novel follows the continuing adventures of Thursday Next in her fictional version of Swindon and in the BookWorld, and is the first of a new four-part Nextian series.Special features for ''First Among Sequels'' – note that a code word (from the novel) is required to access this page. The title was originally announced, at the end of Fforde's novel '''', as ''The War of the Words''. Plot introduction ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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The Eyre Affair
''The Eyre Affair'' is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001. It takes place in an alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel ''Jane Eyre''. Fforde had received 76 rejections for earlier works before being accepted by a publisher. Critical reception of this novel was generally positive, remarking on its originality. Plot summary In a parallel universe, England and Imperial Russia have fought the Crimean War for more than a century; although now a republic (with entertainer George Formby as its president), England still also has a parliamentary government, although heavily influenced by the Goliath Corporation (a powerful weapon-producing company with questionable morals); and Wales is a separate, socialist nation. The book's fictional version of ''Jane Eyre'' ends with Jane accompanying her cousin, St. John Rivers, to India in orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |