Yemeni Sheikh Muhammad wants to bring salmon-fishing to his country and employs retiring and initially sceptical fisheries scientist Fred Jones for the project. But then the Foreign Office, the relevant Ministry and No.10 get involved. . . . This is a bitter-sweet and very funny book about politics, spin and bureaucracy but as Fred is drawn into the Sheikh's philosophy of belief in the impossible, there's much more to it than that. . . . A delicious and totally original book.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 43 December 2007 ) |
