The Honorary Consul - Softcover
Synopsis
When the alcoholic British 'Honorary Consul' in an Argentinian town is kidnapped by a band of revolutionaries, a local doctor negotiates with his captors and with the authorities for the man's release, but the corruption of both soon comes to the fore. From the author of OUR MAN IN HAVANA and THE HUMAN FACTOR.
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"The tension never relaxes and one reads hungrily from page to page, reading the moment it will end." - Auberon Waugh, "Evening Standard"
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A gripping tragi-comedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Fair condition soft cover pictorial, no DJ. 267 lightly tanned pages, good with clear print. Minor spots of foxing on edge of pages, no previous names. "In a provincial Argentinian town a group of revolutionaries kidnap by mistake the 'Honorary Consul' - Charley Fortnum, sixty-one years old, living on whisky and his disputed status on British consul, married to Clara, a young ex-whore from Senora Sanchez's brothel". Seller Inventory # 023794
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