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Short of Glory

UK Publisher: Simon & Schuster

A satirical romp through the corridors of the Foreign Office as Patrick Stubbs is posted as third secretary in the British Embassy in Lower Africa. Mayhem awaits him – an absent-minded ambassador, a bullying first secretary with a dipsomaniac wife, and a crush on the police chief’s wife!

Alan Judd has written fifteen novels and two biographies. He has also collaborated, with David Crane, on a National Portrait...