Riotous Assembly

by Tom Sharpe

1973 204 pages eng ★ 3.7 (3 ratings)

With an amusing mixture of slapstick comedy and extreme irony Mr. Sharpe gives a lacerating account of the Hazelstone family's war against the cruelty and incompetence of the police force of a provincial town in South Africa during apartheid. From the lowliest member of the force, Konstabel Els, to …