# The Family Arsenal

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- Book: [The Family Arsenal](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-theroux/the-family-arsenal) ([The Family Arsenal.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-theroux/the-family-arsenal.md))
- Authors: [Paul Theroux](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-theroux)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-986-1
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2010-10-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order through the opium fog of his room. His sometimes bedmate, Mayo, has stolen a Flemish painting and is negotiating for publicity with The Times. Meanwhile, Murf the bomb-maker leaves his mark in red whilst his girlfriend Brodie bombs Euston . . . Set in the grimy decay of south-east London, The Family Arsenal is a chilling novel of violence in the tradition of Brighton Rock .