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Buch
Originaltitel
Originalsprache
Englisch
Erstveröffentlichung
1979
Band (Reihe)
1 + 2 (Henry Wilt)
Typ
Sammelband
Genre
Belletristik: Roman
Auflage
Titel
Sprache
Englisch
Verlag
Book Club Associates London
Jahr
1985
Seitenanzahl
428
ISBN
-
EAN
-
Ausgabe
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
Erstauflage
Inhalt/Klappentext
Henry Wild, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife Eva has just been passed over for promotion yet again. But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he can do something about his wife, in imagination at least, and his fantasies grow daily more murderous and more concrete.
After a peculiarly nasty experience at a party thrown by particularly nasty Americans Wilt finds himself in several embarrassing positions: Eva stalks out in stratospheric dudgeon, and Wilt, under the inspiration of Gin, puts one of his more vindinctive fantasies into effect.
But suspicions are instantly aroused and Wilt rapidly achieves an unenviable notoriety in the role of The Man Helping Police With Their Enquiries.
But Wilt begins to flourish in the heat of investigation, and as the police stoke the flames of circumstantial evidence, Wilt develops all his powers to show that the Law can't tell a Missing Person from a hole in the ground.
In the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets, aged five, on looking at every problem with unflinching lack of sentimentality.
But it is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power which have corrupted greater men than him. With a mental ingenuity born of his innate cowardice, Wilt fights for those liberal values which are threatened both by international terrorism and by the sophisticated methods of police and anti-terrorist agents. In the confusion that follows, Wilt resumes his dialogue with the indefatigable Inspector Flint and is himself subjected to the indignity of a psycho-political profile.
After a peculiarly nasty experience at a party thrown by particularly nasty Americans Wilt finds himself in several embarrassing positions: Eva stalks out in stratospheric dudgeon, and Wilt, under the inspiration of Gin, puts one of his more vindinctive fantasies into effect.
But suspicions are instantly aroused and Wilt rapidly achieves an unenviable notoriety in the role of The Man Helping Police With Their Enquiries.
But Wilt begins to flourish in the heat of investigation, and as the police stoke the flames of circumstantial evidence, Wilt develops all his powers to show that the Law can't tell a Missing Person from a hole in the ground.
In the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets, aged five, on looking at every problem with unflinching lack of sentimentality.
But it is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power which have corrupted greater men than him. With a mental ingenuity born of his innate cowardice, Wilt fights for those liberal values which are threatened both by international terrorism and by the sophisticated methods of police and anti-terrorist agents. In the confusion that follows, Wilt resumes his dialogue with the indefatigable Inspector Flint and is himself subjected to the indignity of a psycho-political profile.
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Erstauflage dieses Sammelbandes: 1985
Buch 1: 1976
Buch 2: 1979
Buch 1: 1976
Buch 2: 1979