Following the hilarious debacle of Blue Heaven, librettist Philip Cavanaugh has again allowed himself to be drawn into a fiendish money-making plan by his friend and ex-lover Gilbert Selwyn. To this end Philip enters the Champion entourage - a clan so poisonous they make the Borgias look Amish - with his songwriting partner Claire.
Michael Palin's first novel is the story of Martin Sproale, a mild and conventional assistant postmaster in his mid-thirties who lives in an English coastal town. The only remarkable thing about him is an obsession with the life, work and personality of Ernest Hemingway.
In Griekenland breekt voor een jonge Amerikaan plotseling het lang verbeide grote avontuur aan, wanneer hij geconfronteerd wordt met een Amerikaanse zwendelaar, diens mooie vrouw en een dode Griek.