I didn't think this was quite as good as his Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce (see below), but it's not far off.It's sad and it's funny and it's gripping.
A Yemeni sheikh who has developed a passion for salmon-fishing requests the help of the UK fisheries department to set up a salmon-fishing project in his home country. Alfred Jones is the expert who is asked to do a feasability study. He is at first insulted that he should be forced to waste his time on such an obviously mad scheme, but then gets drawn in by the charm of the sheikh and of the woman from the PR company who is acting as go-between.
The book consists of emails, letters and more conventional narrative and it's a great read.
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