Once against the setting is Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, where Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorize true Englishmen and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa. While that great Anglophile, Kommandant van Heerden, gropes his way towards attaining true "Englishness" in the company of the eccentric Dornford Yates Club, Luitenant Verkramp, whose hatred of all things English is surpassed only by his fear of sex. This sets in motion an experiment in mass chastity, with the help of the redoubtable lady psychiatrist Dr. von Blimenstein, which has remarkable and quite unforeseen results. Once more, Konstabel Els, homicidal to the last, saves the day - or what's left of it - in one of the most savage hunts ever chronicled in fiction.
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"Explosively funny, fiendishly inventive" (Sunday Times)
"Splendidly funny" (New Statesman)
"What clinches the novel's success is Mr Sharpe's brilliant comic style. His phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic incidents make for real hilarity" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Britain's leading practitioner of black humour" (Punch)
Tom Sharpe's second South African novel and a brilliant follow-up to Riotous Assembly
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