Nick Harkaway (born 1972) is a novelist and commentator. He is the author of the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker and Tigerman; and a non-fiction study of the digital world, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World.
Harkaway was born Nicholas Cornwell in Cornwall, England. He is the son of Valérie Jane Eustace and author John le Carré.
Harkaway was educated at the independent University College School in North London, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied philosophy, sociology and politics and took up Shorinji Kan Jiu Jitsu. He worked in the film industry before becoming an author.
The Gone-Away World is Harkaway's first novel. Originally titled, The Wages of Gonzo Lubitsch, it concerns a number of ex-special forces operatives turned truckers who are hired to perform a dangerous mission in a post-apocalyptic world.
AngelMaker is Harkaway's second novel, a spy thriller detailing a clockmaker's attempt to stop a Cold War era doomsday weapon.
And what will happen in the morning
When the world it gets
So crowded that you can't look
Out the window in the morning
And what will happen in the evening
In the forest with the weasel
With the teeth that bite so sharp
When you're not looking in the evening
And all the friends that you once knew are left behind
They kept you safe
And so secure amongst the books
And all the records of your lifetime
What will happen
In the morning
When the world it gets so crowded
That you can't look out the window in the morning
Hey, take a little while to grow your brother's hair
And now, take a little while to make your sister fair
And now that the family is part of a chain
Take off your eye shade, start over again
Now take a little while to find your way in here
Now take a little while to make your story clear
Now that you're lifting, your feet from the ground
Weigh up your anchor and never look round
Let's sing a song for Hazey Jane
She's back again in my mind
If songs were lines in a conversation