Coming Up Roses

paperback, Softcover. Very Good.previous owners gift inscription on title page, very slight discolouration on page edges. 1st Corgi Edition. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. King Fadl stares at the bejewelled map of his kingdom on the wall of the royal rumpus room. Part of neighbouring Zibda intrudes into his territory and he wants it. He telephones impoverished Sultan Nabil of Zibda to make him an offer he can't refuse. GCHQ is listening in. Top Secret files are consulted. Charlie Hammond, a disgraced MI42 operative with a weakness for shopping, is sent to gather information. He meets Armitage, an English teacher, seduced into a job in the Arab world after seeing Lawrence of Arabia 25 years after everyone else. When the Ministry for the Suppression of Vice and the Encouragement of Virture orders the circumcision of all expatriates, Hammond and Armitage's troubles are just beginning. Caught in flagrante by Abdul Wahhab Higgins, Jesuit turned Muslim zealot, can they escape the Anderton Lash'em?ISBN: 0552994219.…