![]() However, Salter, the foreign editor, gets his Boots mixed up and sends William to Ishmaelia. John Boot was a successful novelist who had become a foreign correspondent to escape from an unhappy affair. In fact, Lord Cooper, the megalomaniac proprietor of the Daily Beast, had intended to hire John Boot, on the advice of the wife of a cabinet minister. The hero is William Boot, the rural correspondent for the Daily Beast, inadvertently sent to cover the civil war in the African country of Ishmaelia. Waugh has a wonderful time skewering the journalists as immoral, cynical, drunken crooks. ![]() Waugh subtitled this novel A novel about journalists and it is based in part on his experiences as a correspondent for the Daily Mail in Abyssinia. Home » England » Evelyn Waugh » Scoop Evelyn Waugh: Scoop ![]()
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