Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Paul Torday

The satire, although needle sharp, is light and delicious. What result is an amusing, fly on the wall fiction of a world where spin doctors and scientists (specialist subject - fish) collide. You can’t help but feel that this ridiculous insight into British politics is nearer the truth than you’d like to believe.

Extract
I appreciate the points you have raised in your memo of today's date. Having given the matter my fullest consideration, I remain unable to see how we can help Fitzharris & Price and their client. The prospect of introducing salmon to the wadis of the Hadramawt seems to me, quite frankly, risible.
I am quite prepared to back this up with the relevant science, should anyone at the FCO require further information on our grounds for not proceeding.
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