Brigadier General Nigel Haversham is the closest thing imaginable to a geriatric James Bond: a worldly soldier, a truly impressive drinker, a connoisseur of the female form, and, as he turns sixty, soon to be propelled into a land as dangerous as Papua New Guinea.<BR>But there's something else about General Nigel Haversham: an outmoded sense of honour that makes him a twenty-first-century Don Quixote. He's a beau sabreur when sabreurs have gone out of fashion, an Errol Flynn - minus the accusations of drug addiction, statutory rape, and spying for the Nazis, of course - in an age of Quentin Tarantinos.<BR>And it is in a war against the Pulp Fiction generation that he finds himself, as he travels to the wilds of Southern California to find his missing goddaughter, who might very well have been kidnapped by an English scamp of a drug-dealing, Hollywood-abiding Tarantino-wannabe.<BR>But that bad boy is about to meet his match. Aided by two native guides - known to the California cognoscenti as "beach babes" - and allied with other colourful characters to form his own rainbow coalition of reaction, Nigel engages in a brilliant campaign to restore the English way of life, honour, and Victorian values - in contemporary Los Angeles.