Goliath promises that STONK will soon be standard issue to the British military. The weapon should be capable of destroying a tank with a single blast. Meanwhile, Goliath has been contracted to create a plasma rifle codenamed "STONK" to overpower the Russians. A peace movement in Britain is gaining popularity.
The Crimean War is a cold conflict with both sides at a stalemate but too stubborn to call for peace. The more than 20 branches include SpecOps 12, the Chronoguard, who police all events related to time travel, and SpecOps 27, the Literary Detectives, or "LiteraTecs", who deal with all literature-related crimes. Regular law enforcement agencies still exist, alongside new specialized agencies under the single organization SpecOps (Special Operations). Society publicly debates literary questions (especially the question of Shakespearean authorship), sometimes inspiring gang wars and murder. John Rivers, to India in order to help him with his missionary work. The book's fictional version of Jane Eyre ends with Jane accompanying her cousin, St. 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. Critical reception of this novel was generally positive, remarking on its originality. Fforde had received 76 rejections for earlier works before being accepted by a publisher.
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. The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001.
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