'When Tom Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public school- the result is predictably savage. Hoaxes, chases, car crashes, shootings, and general mayhem. Wicked riotous humour' Daily Telegraph 'Wildly hilarious pot-shots at the public school system and the sacred cows of adventure fiction' Observer 'You'll enjoy this wild and, in places, wildly funny story- It is all an hilarious send-up of the Dornford Yates style of thriller with some modernistic Sharpe barbs added' Daily Express 'One of our best contemporary comic writers- very, very funny' Birmingham Evening Mail' Excellently funny' AUBERON WAUGH, Daily Mail 'Britain's leading practitioner of black humour' Punch 'He has not written a better or more skilful farce' Financial Times