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Is part of Grafton Everest Adventures Ross Fitzgerald , 1986 series - author novel (number 8 in series)
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'The eighth book in the Grafton Everest series sees the hapless ex-President of the Republic of Australia, Dr Professor Grafton Everest, caught up in a web of international espionage and intrigue that he is hopelessly ill-equipped to handle.
'Abandoned to his own inadequate devices when his wife Janet departs on a world tour, with his home invaded by his now broke daughter and son-in-law, Grafton accepts an assignment with the United Nations to investigate electoral fraud in Russia. The reason is not only to get out of the house; an old letter from his mother, addressed to someone in the Soviet Union fifty years ago, suggests that Grafton may not be the only child that he always thought he was.
'Grafton’s mission to Moscow and his search for this mysterious sibling take him far from the Russian capital, deep into the icy wastes of Siberia and even deeper in a tangled conspiracy whose roots extend back to the Cold War and even as far back as the Russian Revolution.' (Publication summary)

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    • Ormond, Brighton - Moorabbin area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Hybrid , 2021 .
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      Extent: 280p.
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      • Published: 13th October 2021
      ISBN: 9781925736748
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Works about this Work

Larger and Hungrier Than Life Neal Price , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 65 no. 11 2021; (p. 87-89)
— Review of The Lowest Depths Ross Fitzgerald , Ian McFadyen , 2021 single work novel 'Co-written with Ian McFadyen, of Comedy Company fame, The Lowest Depths is Professor Ross Fitzgerald’s forty-third book and the eighth in his Grafton Everest series. It follows the The Dizzying Heights (2019), also co-written with McFadyen. It is unprecedented in Australia, and perhaps in the English-speaking world, for eight political satires to be written chronologically, following the development of the same set of key characters. The closest I can think of are P.G. Wodehouse’s comic novels about the bumbling Bertie Wooster and his hugely intelligent manservant, Jeeves. But they do not develop, and Wodehouse has a stationary sense of time.' 

 (Introduction)
Larger and Hungrier Than Life Neal Price , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 65 no. 11 2021; (p. 87-89)
— Review of The Lowest Depths Ross Fitzgerald , Ian McFadyen , 2021 single work novel 'Co-written with Ian McFadyen, of Comedy Company fame, The Lowest Depths is Professor Ross Fitzgerald’s forty-third book and the eighth in his Grafton Everest series. It follows the The Dizzying Heights (2019), also co-written with McFadyen. It is unprecedented in Australia, and perhaps in the English-speaking world, for eight political satires to be written chronologically, following the development of the same set of key characters. The closest I can think of are P.G. Wodehouse’s comic novels about the bumbling Bertie Wooster and his hugely intelligent manservant, Jeeves. But they do not develop, and Wodehouse has a stationary sense of time.' 

 (Introduction)
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    Russia,
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    Former Soviet Union,
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    Eastern Europe, Europe,
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