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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Bad to Worse
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'Out in the Arizona desert, Walter Reckles emerges unscathed from an air crash in a classified zone. He’s under intense pressure to retract his story about hitting an illicit drone – a story that reignites a century-old feud between the families of Mortiss and Worse. Meanwhile, in a cave in the Ferendes, Edvard TØssentern has discovered a wall of indecipherable hieroglyphs and deep inside the cave something sinister is stirring. Brilliant intelligence analyst Richard Worse is called in to investigate. Can he live long enough to discover the truth that will save Reckles and destroy the Mortiss empire? Things will go from bad to worse before you find out.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2017 .
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      Extent: 312p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 28th August 2017
      ISBN: 9781925164930
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2024 .
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      Extent: 312p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 30 July 2024
      ISBN: 9781760992774

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Worseworld Barry Reynolds , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 397 2017; (p. 62)

— Review of Bad to Worse Robert Edeson , 2017 single work novel

'You can’t help but smile while reading Robert Edeson’s Bad to Worse, his second book featuring Richard Worse, polymath, conversationalist, fighter, and resident of Perth. The mirth may have something to do with the Dickensian names Edeson uses throughout – not just Worse, but an aeronautics engineer called Walter Reckles, the Norwegian–British logician Edvard Tossentern, and the aptly named villain, Glimpse (who only makes a short appearance). It may also come from the reader trying to separate the real science and philosophy from the author defying the laws of nature and daring his readers to pick the difference.' (Introduction)

Worseworld Barry Reynolds , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 397 2017; (p. 62)

— Review of Bad to Worse Robert Edeson , 2017 single work novel

'You can’t help but smile while reading Robert Edeson’s Bad to Worse, his second book featuring Richard Worse, polymath, conversationalist, fighter, and resident of Perth. The mirth may have something to do with the Dickensian names Edeson uses throughout – not just Worse, but an aeronautics engineer called Walter Reckles, the Norwegian–British logician Edvard Tossentern, and the aptly named villain, Glimpse (who only makes a short appearance). It may also come from the reader trying to separate the real science and philosophy from the author defying the laws of nature and daring his readers to pick the difference.' (Introduction)

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