This book is (mainly) a conventional life-story, written in a deliberately conversational style that has you believing youre with a friend in your local Pub or enjoying a lengthy stroll on the river bank. Yet once the book has you comfortably snoozing, an outrageous passage of humour and sarcasm has you hoping for more.

Born to middle-class mediocrity, Geoff Taylor fumbles his way through life, in fifteen countries on three continents, like a cross between The Born Loser and Lucky Jim.