Refusal Shoes

by TonySaint (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.44

  Henry Brinks is an immigration officer at a London airport ? God help him. He?s surrounded by drunks and thieves, bigots and maniacs and that?s just his workmates. Throw into the mix an endless stream of scammers, chancers and desperadoes plus a Chinese triad killer with a dodgy passport and Henry?s day at work could hardly get any worse. Tony Saint (himself a former immigration officer) has written a remarkable debut novel that is both a first-class thriller and a disturbingly funny expose set in the hidden world of the immigration service, a place where the ill-assorted staff have extraordinary powers and limitless potential for corruption. Forget the pieties of liberals or the foamings of the rightwing press, this is the real story of life on the front line of the immigration business.

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.64

  Immigration Officer Henry Brinks likes to keep out of trouble, but when he unwittingly stumbles onto a scam to smuggle Chinese crooks into the country he discovers that his colleagues are the last people to turn to. Refusal Shoes is a blackly comic novel based on the author?s years of working for the Immigration Service. Set in the Immigration Office of a major UK airport populated by a group of idiosyncratic, superbly drawn characters, Refusal Shoes offers an insider?s view into the secretive and surreal world of passport control. If you?ve ever been on the receiving end of an immigration officer, know someone who has, or are just curious about what they can (and do) get away with, then you must read this hilarious novel. Once you have, going through passport control will never be quite the same again!