The Mandarin's Dilemma: Made Knaves by Duty (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781980584285)

Helena Besty is a senior civil servant in the Her Majesty's Civil Service - one of the 'mandarins' who run the country. The country is in crisis, the Prime Minister, Gordon Blackead, caught up in Napoleonic visions. He has ordered the Army Commander, Sir Jock Saddleup, to ready a nuclear strike (for demonstration purposes). Helena's boss, Sir Tristram Seville, nearing retirement, has become doddery and lost his grip on events. Can she do her duty - to lie and cheat and worse for her country? Her large-brained boyfriend Bernard Haplesser sees a solution which involves Rumena Haaridan, the MP with the mostest, doing what comes naturally to her. But will this come naturally to Helen?Helena's adventures are snappily and humorously related in this novella, which could be the plot from a twenty-first century Gilbert and Sullivan operetta (and has indeed been turned into a musical on youtube).

Author: Joe St Johanser
ISBN-10: 1980584281
ISBN-13: 9781980584285
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2018
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d