A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of 'At
Swim-Two-Birds' - Flann O'Brien. A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an a
rchetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity, the story of
a tender, brief, unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle, and a chi
lling fable of unending guilt, 'The Third Policeman' is comparable only to 'Alic
e in Wonderland' as an allegory of the absurd. Distinguished by endless comic in
vention and its delicate balancing of logic and fantasy, 'The Third Policeman' i
s unique in the English language.
