If you like Tom Sharpe, you'll love Jack Trevor Story... Welcome to 'never-never' land, that waste of industrial estates and cheap housing somewhere south of Birmingham and north of Luton airport - provincial England in the grim grip of Hire Purchase. Follow Albert Argyle, prince of tally-boys, through the seedy manoeuvres of his trade as he lies, cheats and desperately attempts to graft his way out of his own worsening financial situation. Put your money down. Ten per cent deposit and you can LIVE NOW, PAY LATER. Jack Trevor Story, prince of serio-comic novelists, has an astute eye for the absurd in ordinary life, a devastatingly acute ear for dialogue, and a very human sympathy for the silly housewives, sordid local politicians and greedy entrepreneurs who make up the cast of this infamous, hilarious novel.