Wild About Harry

Fontana, 1986. Standard. Paperback. Good. Outline:- Dreaming of knighted retirement back in England, Major Harry Copeland-Smith is marooned in Paraguay, as he has been for the past twenty years, on a mission so secret that even its classification is classified.Poor Harry. As vultures hover and the creatures of the swamp go plop in the night, things begin to get out of hand. The brutal police chief embarks on a sanitation campaign that will plumb new depths of corruption. And the new British Ambassador arrives, determined to salvage a career heading for scandalous oblivion. Vultures and police chiefs Harry can deal with. It`s His Excellency who really begins to foul things up...“Wildly funny...a hilarious, inventive black comedy” The Times"Sometimes reminiscent of Waugh, sometimes of Greene, sometimes of A Good Man in Africa... comedy as black as my hat and twice as funny" Punch“Altogether, this is a smashing debut from a new comic novelist of terrific promise,” Valentine Cunningham, Observer “Is it as good as Graham Greene? Yes, it is, and in some ways better,” Marghanita Laski, The Listener.-> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Fontana The date of this copy is 1986 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK