The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

by Douglas Adams

Simon and Schuster, 1988, ISBN 0671625837, hardcover with brown boards and blue binding, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little rubbing to edges and corners, minor scuffing to front end-papers, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear, with a little rubbing, chipping and small tears to edges and corners (see photographs)

"When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shoots up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame, the usual people try to claim responsibility.  First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board; even British Nuclear Fuels rushes out a statement that the situation is completely under control, that it was a one-in-a-million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it hasn't actually anything to do with them at all ...
No rational cause can be found for the explosion - it is simply designated an act of God.  But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why?  What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo?"