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The 3Rd Policeman is Flann O'Brienis superbly black comic book concerning the nature of lifestyle, death, and time. Informed with a narrator who has dedicated a horrible robbery and brutal murder, the book follows him and his activities in a two-dimensional police place where, through the ideas of the researcher/philosopher de Selby, he's launched to "Atomic Theory" and its regards to bikes, the lifestyle of anniversary (which works out to be just in the future), and de Selby's view that our planet isn't spherical but "chicken-shaped." With the aid of his newly discovered spirit called "Joe," he grapples with the riddles and contradictions that three odd policeman give him.The final of O'Brien's books to be released, The Third Policeman ties O'Brien's different fiction (At Swim-Two-Birds, Poor People Mouth, The Hard Life, The Very Best of Myles, and The Dalkey Archive) to make sure his spot, along with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, as you of Ireland's excellent witty geniuses.With the book of The Third Policeman, Dalkey Archive Press today has all O'Brien's fiction in printing.