Wilt Alternative

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In this the second of Tom Sharpes chronicles about Henry Wilt our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology & the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots & reactionary bureaucrats -- in addition to his wifes enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap & the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality. Wilts problems are compounded by nature in the shape of a rose bush nostalgia temporary infatuation with a foreign student & the hostility of medical services unwilling to attend to his most urgent needs. But it is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power which have corrupted greater men than he. With a mental ingenuity born of his innate cowardice Wilt fights for those liberal values which are threatened both by international terrorism & by the sophisticated methods of police anti-terrorist agents. In the confusion that follows Wilt resumes his dialogue with the unflagging Inspector Flint & is himself subjected to the indignity of a psycho-political profile. Bitingly funny & brilliantly written The Wilt Alternative exposes the farcical anomalies which have become the social norms of our time.