The Little Nugget
P. G. Wodehouse
- A
- comic
- crime
- caper
- from
- the
- popular
- and
- prolific
- twentieth-century
- author
- of
- the
- Jeeves
- novels
- featuring
- Bertie
- Wooster.When
- Ogden
- Ford,
- the
- chubby
- son
- of
- a
- divorced
- American
- millionaire,
- arrives
- at
- a
- posh
- English
- prep
- school,
- he
- sets
- in
- motion
- a
- dastardly
- plot.
- There’s
- a
- new
- classics
- teacher
- at
- the
- school
- who’s
- not
- who
- he
- purports
- to
- be
- .
- .
- .The
- schoolmaster
- in
- training,
- Peter
- Burns,
- is
- really
- working
- for
- Ogden’s
- mother,
- who
- wants
- her
- son
- back
- after
- losing
- custody
- of
- him
- to
- her
- ex-husband.
- What
- Peter
- doesn’t
- know
- is
- that
- he’s
- soon
- to
- have
- competition
- in
- the
- kidnapping
- contest.
- American
- gangsters
- have
- already
- targeted
- the
- boy,
- known
- as
- “Little
- Nugget,”
- for
- his
- ransom
- value—and
- they
- aren’t
- afraid
- to
- cross
- the
- pond
- to
- get
- him.
- What
- follows
- is
- a
- convoluted
- game
- of
- thwarted
- abductions,
- hair’s-breadth
- escapes,
- and
- romantic
- escapades.Praise
- for
- P.
- G.
- Wodehouse“Wodehouse’s
- idyllic
- world
- can
- never
- stale.
- He
- will
- continue
- to
- release
- future
- generations
- from
- captivity
- that
- may
- be
- more
- irksome
- than
- our
- own.
- He
- has
- made
- a
- world
- for
- us
- to
- live
- in
- and
- delight
- in.”
- —Evelyn
- Waugh“He
- exhausts
- superlatives.”
- —Stephen
- Fry“Pure
- word
- music.”
- —Douglas Adams
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