Book description
This is an hilarious collection of email exchanges starring the
anti-hero of spam, Bob Servant, now republished with previously
unreleased material. Spam is the plague of the electronic age,
comprising 90% of all emails sent and conning over 0150m a year from
British victims. Into this wave of corruption steps the brave figure
of Bob Servant Â- a former window cleaner and cheeseburger magnate
with a love of wine, women and song as well as a keen sense of fair
play. This wickedly funny and original book features the anarchic
exchanges between Bob and the hapless spam merchants. As they offer
Bob lost African millions, Russian brides and get-rich-quick scams he
responds by generously offering some outlandish schemes of his own.
The spammers may have breached his firewall, but they have met their
match as Bob Servant rises heroically to the challenge, and sows
confusion in his wake.
Bob Servant is a sixty-two-year-old, semi-retired resident of Dundee.
He has previously worked as a merchant sailor and window cleaner, among
other occupations, but now describes himself as 'an unemployed gigolo'.
Neil Forsyth is an author and journalist. A fellow Dundonian and friend
to Bob Servant for over twenty years, he has recently completed
Servant's biography, Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee, also available from
Birlinn.
