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Wiliam Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Prizes, presents improbable characters eager to receive their unsatisfying lives.From Florida poolsides for the battlegrounds of Vietnam, this is a planet filled by as their single escape from life's inequities tired spirits who turn to dream. Stuck within an African-American resort throughout a coup, an oafish Englishman impresses a stewardess with tales of an enchanted living totally at odds with his sordid lifestyle in "The Coup." In the title story, an arrogant, vicious National aviator in Vietnam underestimaets the ability of vengeance when he often persecutes an associate of his maintenance team. With uncommon empathy and droll wit, we are reminded by Boyd 's enthralling stories of his prominence as you of modern fiction's best storytellers.