Delete This at Your Peril: The Bob Servant Emails

Represented by:
David Riding

Category:
Non-fiction, humour

Publisher:
Birlinn

Publication date:
October 1, 2010

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 GBP150m a year from British victims. Into this wave of corruption steps the brave figure of Bob Servant – 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.

Reviews

'I have worked with a lot of funny men - Peter Cook, Spike Milligan, Harry Enfield... Bob servant is in a class of his own.' --Barry Fantoni, Private Eye

'This was my very well received Secret Santa present!... truly hysterical.. cracking book… brilliant read!' --Book Geek Blog

Mentioned as part of Canongate s 40 to Watch important voices of the future --The Skinny