Book description
In Delete This At Your Peril, Neil Forsyth introduced the fictional
character Bob Servant to the UK and North America and his creation
quickly gained a critically-led cult following. Trainspotting author
Irvine Welsh picked Delete This At Your Peril for Esquire's Funniest
Books Ever Written and both the book and the Bob Servant character are
being developed for television and radio by the BBC. Sixty-three years
old and resolutely single, Servant spends his days with a small number
of trusted associates pursuing unlikely business opportunities, giving
stern views on current affairs and chasing skirt'. His outlook on
life is one of unbridled ambition and self-belief as he constantly
battles the local boo boys' for the respect that he undoubtedly
deserves. Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee charts the hilarious, whimsical
and action-packed life-story of Bob Servant, unveiling with touching
bravery, a fearless romp through a life full of incident, from his
rise from a childhood of abject poverty, through a career in the
merchant navy, his establishment of the largest window-cleaning round
in Western Europe and his part in Dundee's infamous Cheeseburger Wars
of the early 1990s, to his current standing as an unemployed gigolo'
in Broughty Ferry.
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, Delete at Your Peril, also available from Birlinn.
