The best comic novel about Africa since Scoop Sunday Times Patrick Stubbs, posted to Lower Africa as third secretary in the British Embassy, little anticipates the mayhem of bungling, flannel and chicanery that awaits him. On arrival he is put on the trail of the errant consul from whom he inherits a vast house and an eccentric staff. It is a search beset by complications the brilliant but absentminded ambassador, the bullying first secretary with dipsomaniac wife in tow, and the local police chief whose mistress Patrick covets. Short of Glory presents a splendid romp throught the corridors of the Foreign Office, and pinpoints the dilemmas confronting a fledgling diplomat in a country fraught with serious moral issues. Alan Judds second novel is in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and William Boyd a novel of warm satire, high foolishness, and deeply human compassion set in whitedominated South Africa.

Binding: Paperback;370 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 452.03 g; Dimensions: N/A

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