New York: Summit Books, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A satirical novel in which a sedate, overweight Englishman is sent to a South American country to run a moribund bookstore - and winds up being recruited into the British Special Information Service... While this might be satire, the author (like Le Carre) worked for the Briitsh Foreign Office and knows what he is writing about. Judd named as one of the Best Young British Novelists by Granta Magazine. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-671707108.