Beautiful like an airport

Beautiful as an airport is the second book of the series Dirk Gently, detective holistic of the writer English Douglas Adams, published in France in 2003.

Original work was published in 1988 under the title long The dark tea-time off the drunk . French translation of Jean Rosenthal.

Synopsis

The last customer of Dirk Gently, Geoffrey (or Geoffroy) Anstey, which said themselves threatened by a monster to the green eyes armed with a scythe, is found decapitated in his closed room of the interior.

Kate Schechter is wounded in an explosion with the Aéroport of Heathrow, with London, at the time which the ex-secretary disappeared from Dirk Gently, become receptionist with the airport. This explosion was caused by Thor, the god of the Thunder, which takes along Kate with him towards the Walhalla, for a confrontation with Odin, his/her father.

Topics

Thor and Odin, gods of the Scandinavian Mythology, as well as other fantastic creatures, are confronted with our world, in the London of today
One finds several bonds with Neverwhere of Neil Gaiman:

the secretary of Mr. Standish, director of the Woodshead hospital, is called Mrs Mayhew, like Richard Mayhew, the hero of Neverwhere
the Mendiant S of London have access to a door towards the Walhalla, the field of the God X

In 2001, Neil Gaiman will take again the topic of the old gods (in particular Odin) confronted with contemporary reality in American Gods

Characters

Svlad Cjelli, alias Dirk Gently, holistic detective
Kate Schechter, journalist American living with London
Mr. Odwin, or Wodin, or Odin, god of the warriors in the Scandinavian Mythology
Thor, god of the Thunder of the Scandinavian
Janice Smith, or Pearth, ex-secretary of Dirk Gently
Gilks, police Mythology
Sally Millets, nurse

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