Everybody Wants to Rule the World: 'A thoroughly enjoyable spy novel' Mail on Sunday

'A comic thriller which reads like a mash-up of Elmore Leonard and The Goonies' The Times, Book of the Month'This 80s-set yarn mixes fact and fiction in a winning comedy thriller.It's totally ace' The SunIt's 1985, what will soon become known as "The Year of the Spy," and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom's new boyfriend is a Russian agent. "Gary" isn't in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche.Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts.But who is going to believe him? He's just a kid into BMX and MTV. But after another woman who works at the lab is killed, Peter recruits an unlikely pair of allies - a has-been pulp writer named Dennis Hotchner and his drag performer buddy and heavy, Jackie Demure.Both soon become the target of an unhinged Russian hitman (is it Gary?Maybe!) with a serious Phil Collins obses