Poor Table Manners - Sheppard, Steve

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Résumé :
'Steve Sheppard is a gifted comic writer with a knack for clever plotting and thrills.' Greg Mosse, writer 'A fun, page-turning thriller that kept me enthralled and chuckling. There's a wonderful sort of sophisticated goofiness reminiscent of Nick and Nora Charles of The Thin Man. I couldn't put it down!' Steve Powell, author of Term Limits 'Frenetic and huge fun.' Julie Anderson, author of the CWA-listed Cassandra Fortune series - Dawson and Lucy hit Cape Town... and Cape Town hits back When their new employer dies in a suspicious road accident and his brother, a South African government lawyer disappears in Cape Town, Dawson and Lucy are recalled to MI6. For once their mission is straightforward: liaise with Rebecca Erasmus of South African State Security and find the missing lawyer. Then Rebecca is kidnapped. Surely this has nothing to do with the forthcoming presidential election and the vengeful Chinese assassin in town... Why are Dawson and Lucy held up at gunpoint on Table Mountain? Why is a South African presidential candidate hiding in a vineyard? How are the CIA and Chinese involved? Can you fly a helicopter without scooping some goats up for the ride? And what part does dreadful cooking have to play in proceedings? Dawson is the unlikeliest MI6 spy you'll ever meet. Good thing he has the lethally competent Lucy Smith for company. From important teapots to vengeful assassins to international conspiracies, is there any escapade that Dawson can't stumble into or any that Lucy can't rescue him from? Find out in the funniest spy thriller series you'll ever read....

Sommaire:
Steve Sheppard was born in Guildford, the youngest by some distance of three brothers, and spent his formative years in the heart of the Surrey stockbroker belt, where he played a lot of sport (poorly), met a lot of people (friendly) and had a lot of jobs (of varying degrees of noteworthiness). He also appeared on stage in a number of amateur productions, whether anyone wanted him to or not. Disappointed at failing to meet any actual stockbrokers, he moved to West Oxfordshire over twenty years ago, with in a series of recalcitrant cats. Bored to Death in the Baltics is his second novel. He has won 2nd place in short story writing contests, and hasn't placed in many more contests....