THE LONDON EMBASSY
Spencer Savage, the hero in Theroux's The Consul's File, savors the endless treasure trove of British characters and misplaced Americans in "the last habitable city" - London. A vengeful Arab, a newly impoverished aristocrat, a male embassy employee who sports an earring and dozens of other richly imagined portraits complete this marvelous tale of surprise and adventure, of private passions and public follies.