I think I may be the target audience for this book - raised on Monty Python, Spike Milligan and the Goons, with a fair bit of Salvadore Dali thrown in; interested in the British establishment and its foibles; left leaning to the point of frequently falling over. The story, masquerading as some kind of crime thriller, revels in its own silliness, and throws in daft names, crazy conceits, absurd situations, almost as if the tradition of the sixth form review or the boyscout jamboree were going out of fashion... If your background is different you may be a bit baffled by this book, but read on, let yourself float on the sea of Pete Adams' surreal imagination. Beneath all the knockabout madness there are lots of political, artistic, literary references you can pick up like bits of a crossword puzzle. And there is, almost, a bit of a message. Anyway, just read and enjoy. You'll come out of it not knowing quite where you've been, but possibly feeling quite refreshed.