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Name: A Good Man in Africa

Author: William Boyd
Year: 1981
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Popularity: 2.2
Genres/categories: Humor, Award winners
Culture: Africa

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ISBN:
9781400030026
1400030021
Winner of the Somerset Maugham award in 1982.
Winner of the Whitbread award for First Novel in 1981.

In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation Kingpin and is charged with monitoring the front runner in Kinjanja's national elections, Morgan senses an opportunity to achieve real professional recognition and, more importantly, reassignment.

After he finds himself being blackmailed, diagnosed with a venereal disease, attempting bribery, and confounded with a dead body, Morgan realizes that very little is going according to plan.
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