Wilt is back — in form and in trouble. He is still teaching English, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in The Pig in A Poke with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the calm is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech and Wilt becomes the target of suspicion.

          “Tom Sharpe serves up the loudest laughs in literary comedy.… He is the great post-Waugh humorist, the Woodhouse who dares plunge into the bottomless vulgarity and hysteria of our times, and a rattling good companion on a train journey” – Mail on Sunday