Book Excerpt for the Day

    “Look,” she said, “the Empire’s gone and the country’s broke.  How else can a young man be expected to get on these days?  Really it’s just the same colonial thing, but more clever.  We used to turn up in some part of the world we’d never seen before  and say to the nearest wog “Who’s in charge round here?”  He’d find the chief and we’d tell him, “You people are British now and all this belongs to us”, and he’d say, “Yes, bwana”.  It was great while it lasted, but eventually they cottoned on.”

    From The Drowning by Richard Herley.

    9*/10.  The complete review is here.

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