ASIN: B0164H8J0A
Publisher: (October 2, 2015)
Pages: 275
Philip Lane, having just lost his job, is luxuriating in enforced idleness. That is until an unexpected visitor from the British Security Service involves him in a conspiracy surrounding the local Russian oligarch, Bortnyansky. Harassed by the State Philip finds danger of a different, feminine kind lurking in the local Church. And if trouble from both Church and State weren't enough to contend with, the past also inconveniently comes a-knocking when a message is delivered via an old photograph. Why does stuff like this happen to ordinary people? It just does, that's why, even to someone in a sleepy backwater of England. An unconventional comedy of chameleon spies, trendy vicars and a latent lefty, The Goose Debacle mixes bawdy humour with subversive satire. (Previously titled The Bortnyansky Affair.)
