Aristocrat At Large

Aristocrat at Large is a fast-paced comedy thriller set in the 1950s. Matt Sheridan, a naive young English journalist, goes to California on a madcap mission sponsored by drinking pals at his local pub and, posing as a lord, gets involved in a series of escapades, in turn comic, romantic - and dangerous. When he runs foul of a ruthless business tycoon it becomes questionable whether he'll lives to complete his mission. The novel is John C Bird's second. A teenage Matt Sheridan featured in his acclaimed first novel, Alby and Me.