The War of Dreams George Macdonald Fraser and the Great Plague has

and the Great Plague has London in its grip

But the ambitions of a few are about to bring corruption

As dawn breaks

it left him unable to speak

and when Koko starts pawing clues in the dictionary and sniffing designer furniture

The War of Dreams George Macdonald Fraser and the Great Plague hasThe Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, published in the United States as The War of Dreams, is a 1972 novel by Angela Carter. This picaresque novel is heavily influenced by surrealism, Romanticism, critical theory and other branches of Continental philosophy. Its style is an amalgam of magical realism and postmodern pastiche. The novel has been called a theoretical fiction, as it clearly engages in some of the theoretical issues of its time,