$21.50 CAD • Used
DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Bandy Papers #4 (UK); 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pages; This book in the Bandy series (#4 in the UK edi...
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DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Bandy Papers #4 (UK); 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pages; This book in the Bandy series (#4 in the UK edition but #5 in Cdn edition) followed the Canadian first by a year. "The first novel was Three Cheers for Me (1962), but it was later expanded into three books, the first three below, one of which was then republished in two parts" "After his post-war adventures in movies in New York (see Me Bandy, You Cissie, part 2 of It's Me Again in the UK ) our hero returns to his Ottawa Valley home in 1923. Through a series of misunderstandings Bandy becomes the official Liberal candidate in a by-election and to the horror of the Liberal Party leaders especially Prime Minister Mackenzie King he wins, takes his seat in the House of Commons, and proceeds to wreak havoc there. To finance his campaign he goes into business with Gallops local tycoon to smuggle booze into the Prohibition-hit United States, a profitable business until the unpleasantness with the U.S. authorities and all the shooting and wounding. But it does make him a House of Commons authority on corruption in the Canadian government, which leads to his lightning elevation to Mackenzie Kings Cabinet as Minister of Defence. Will this last "
Product Info
ISBN: 0704324458
ISBN-13: 9780704324459
Publisher: Quartet Books
Year: 1984
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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