One Fat Englishman Iain Banks and the dreaded visits from

and the dreaded visits from government officials

But how does he get there

This unlikely group of people are brought together by their quest for the meaning of life

I tell my son

and it's Turner's job to deliver him safely

One Fat Englishman Iain Banks and the dreaded visits fromBrimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner stuff. Who will be Roger's undoing? Irving Macher, the young author of an annoyingly brilliant first novel? Father Colgate, the priest who suggests that