Scoop

Evelyn Waugh

Lord Copper, the newspaper magnate, prided himself on his flair for discovering ace reporters.
But owing to a slight case of mistaken identity the man he picked to cover the civil war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia was less than a novice at the business. Scoop, then, is an irreverent novel about Fleet Street and its hectic pursuit of hot news, narrated with all Evelyn Waugh’s exuberant sense of satire.