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Where Were You at Waterloo? by Nicholas Best (Paperback, 2013)

As sharp as Waugh and sometimes better - Times Literary Supplement Nicholas Best's first vel, a satire of army life. One morning the Gobelin Guards are Trooping the Colour. The next day they are flown out to the Indian Ocean to defend the island of British Casuarina from invasion. Vainly awaiting the intruding enemy from a neighbouring republic, they become entangled with local whores seeking medication and marriage, an expense-hungry war correspondent filing stories of imaginary battles, a film director staging scenes for an army recruitment documentary, and a drug-smuggling guerrilla leader who learned his military skills as an officer cadet in the British army.Combines military satire with exotic thrills in a book reminiscent at its best of that sublime beast Black Mischief - Financial TimesAll good, clean fun and never heavy-handed - Daily Telegraph

Place of Publication
London
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Nicholas Best's books have been translated into many languages. He was the Financial Times fiction critic for ten years and was long-listed in 2010 for the Sunday Times-EFG Bank 30,000 award, the biggest short story prize in the world. For more details, see www.nicholasbest.co.uk.
Date of Publication
01/07/2013
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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