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Sparkling metropolitan entertainment with Paul Theroux's American diplomat in
THE LONDON EMBASSY
Hero of The Consul's File, Theroux's diplomat has now been promoted and posted to London. In these episodes from his career-dinner with Mrs Thatcher, a meeting with a Russian defector, gossip, love affairs - he infiltrates the public lives and private events of the capital's rich and famous and, in doing so, draws us a new map of London.
'Deft, witty glimpses of contemporary London' - Malcolm Bradbury in Vogue
'An alert, elegant, cunning book' - Observer
ISBN:9780140065701
