ISBN 0-86072-110-8

Published by

Robin Clark Ltd/Quartet Books
27/29 Goodge Street
London W1P 1FD

Review From The Irish Times
August 20, 1988

[T]his satirical little fairytale puts the mighty in their place. All those who have watched the manoeuvring of the superpowers with dread and boredom for so many years will rejoice in the spectacle of their masters at the mercy of enforced benevolence. This unaccustomed condition is imposed on the world's decision-makers by a device developed by an unworldly Russian scientist with the help of two ducks and a goose, and its exercise gives rise to farce of hilarious dimensions.

In little more than 130 pages the whole machinery of bureaucracy and corruption, of cynicism and naivety -- all the components essential for international stone-walling -- are held to a ridicule none the less searching for its light-heartedness. The animals are as memorable as the human characters who romp absurdly through its pages.

- Marese Murphy

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