Good Man In Africa Film Tie In

Good Man In Africa Film Tie In by Boyd, William. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780140231717.

Morgan Leafy had high hopes when he first headed out to the small African nation of Kinjanja to serve as Her British Majestys representative. But once there, Leafys dreams of professional advancement and personal happiness soon this son of an airport catering manager finds himself overtaken on the career ladder by other, newer recruits to the diplomatic corps who come from the right family and attended the right schools. Whats worse, the girl of his dreams has just become engaged to someone younger, thinner, and better connected. And if all this werent enough to make a career civil servant miserable, Leafy is also being blackmailed by a representative of one of Kinjanjas many political parties who has presented him with a puzzling get to know the Scottish medical doctor at a local university. Author William Boyd has written about Africa before, most notably in his bestselling novel Brazzaville Beach. In A Good Man in Africa, Boyd spins a darkly comic tale of political corruption, revolution, sexual misadventure, blackmail, and death. By novels end, Leafy may not have become a better man--or even a much wiser one--but he has acquired a kind of dignity and gritty courage for which he is well suited.