Krumnagel

Of all the big men in the small Midwest town, Chief of Police Bartram T. Krumnagel was the biggest. A physical giant with an unbeatable talent for wrongful arrest, he kept the streets safe by shooting on sight. But how would such a stout defender of American liberty fare on foreign soil?

Ustinov loves to contrast people and cultures and to deflate, with wit and humour, the false and pretentious in both. This work brilliantly contrasts a midwestern police chief with the British tradition of law and order — a hilarious, often savage, satire of justice as it exists on both sides of the Atlantic.