A good man in Africa
William Boyd
Morgan Leafy has problems. The First Secretary of the British Deputy Commission in the West African country of Kinjanja, he is being blackmailed by a local politician. His plans to rig the country's elections have somehow gone awry and a coup is slowly brewing. To make matters worse, his black mistress, Hazel, is cheating on him. The luscious Priscilla Fanshawe, daughter of his boss and object of his ambitious lusts, has just announced her engagement to his hated rival. And her father is threatening to dismiss him — unless Morgan can promptly dispose of a smelly corpse, which, according to local beliefs, must be left to rot under the hot African sun.