| The Cover Up: Adult British Police Comedy Satire Contributor(s): Sparrow, Oscar (Author) |
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ISBN: 1916097596 ISBN-13: 9781916097599 Publisher: Gallo Romano Media OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Romantic Comedy |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.37 lbs) 106 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Frankie Ferret, the star of a kids' TV series, goes missing in London and mass emotion marches on parliament. Anxious parents are up all night consoling their heartbroken little darlings. Preschool grief counsellors are on hand to deal with emergency admissions. Big businesses will take the hit if the world-famous merchandising phenomenon, Frankie Ferret, cannot be found. Celebrities plonk their smiles in front of the cameras to jump aboard the sorrow bus. One billionaire offers a massive reward. Everyone cares about Frankie. Even the the Prime Minister has his own venal motives to join the circus. The capital city strains every nerve as the London Met' Police takes up the challenge. The Scotland Yard PR machine fires up to exploit the massive potential positive spin for the police... if they can find him. Politically-correct media specialist, Chief Inspector Crispin Bissel, is in charge. He knows just the cop to spearhead the mission. He chooses his wild and sexy ex-girlfriend. Selena Fontesse, now a street cop. The machine grinds her out to the media as an eye-candy baited hook. All the while Bissel dreams of rekindling the flame of lust if not love... A totally outrageous satire. A dark British comedy combined with a romantic love story. Irreverent and cynical. An expos of the mad media-cult whirl in which we live, where news, fake news and spin are the encrypted currencies of coercion. Do not read if you are easily offended. Contains foul and improper language and politically incorrect views. No ferrets or vegans were harmed in the writing of this book. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sparrow, Oscar: - Oscar Sparrow was born in Winchester UK in 1949, apparently thanks to the American Marshal Aid programme to re-build Europe after the war. As the colour red leached its way out of the map of the British Empire, Oscar attended a die-hard Church school designed to create noble savages to serve what was left of the savage Nobles. The Eleven Plus exam revealed that he could not even count to eleven and he became a mechanic, labourer, truck driver, boxer and poet. He read Wordsworth and Ford Cortina manuals in a lorry cab near both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He married a kind forgiving woman who eventually forgave herself for that one big mistake. He has several wonderful children and hopes that one day they will all meet. At the age of 25 he heard the music of Edith Piaf and learned to sing all her songs. A few years later he realised she was French and that he was an ugly swan not a beautiful duckling. The shock propelled him to London where he joined the Metropolitan Police. Car chases and riots followed but he did not take it personally. He spent his spare time touring the Art galleries, singing Piaf and learning Italian. Eventually The Authorities fell for the con and gave him a desk job in the Art department of Interpol London at Scotland Yard. One day a few years later, the lure of the wild swept him away to the roads of Europe as road gipsy trucker. His love of fried battered fish eventually drew him back to England where he drove sewage tankers and set up a taxi business. Throughout all this time he was a would be poet, short story writer and novelist. Always scribbling he sent waves of short stories to magazines and published poems via the National Poetry Foundation magazines. |
