British MI6 agent, & former SAS trooper, Jack Tate is trying to escape his past when he witnesses a terrorist attack of unthinkable
...Not all Spaniards are Goat Tossers, not all Frenchmen are Arse Blowers, & not all Portuguese are Penis Cake Eaters. But JR Daeschner knows quite a few who are. In Tossers & Arseblowers, he picks up where he left off with True Brits & crosses the Channel in search of Europe's most surreal traditions. From the far west of Ireland to the Continental divide in Istanbul, he ventures where few foreigners have gone before, witnessing spectacles such as the Baby Jumping Festival & the Rigor Mortis Procession in Spain, Snake Handling & Fire Dancing in Greece, Cow Fighting in Switzerland & the celebrations in honour of England's patron saint in the heart of the EU. Along the way, he's inducted into the Order of the Priceless Sardine & catches countless characters in action, including a German detective turned 'love spy', the last of the Irish matchmakers, a Sicilian coprophile & a gay Turkish ' Bear'. Whether it's the furore over the camp following for Oil Wrestling in Turkey or the controversy surrounding the Dutch ' Santa' & his black sidekick, Daeschner finds that these centuries-old events reveal surprising insights into our Continental neighbours.