Fiction by Paul Torday, paperback about $11 from bookdepository.com, amazon.com, etc

This has just been released as a movie and I don't think the book has been reviewed on QJ, so here it is. Much lighter fare than the science/history/politics stuff I have been recommending in other threads. LOL!

SFitY is the story of Dr. Alfred Jones, a research scientist in the UK Department of Fisheries. As a low-level government employee, he has to put up with whatever politically-motivated bs the bureaucracy throws at him, which in this case is the job of preparing a feasibility study for building a salmon run in the Yemeni desert. Along the way he meets a Yemeni sheik who believes that you can accomplish anything if given enough money, an ambitious real estate agent (and object of Jones's Dilbert-like lust), a stereotype Scottish ghillie, and a host of very slimy politicians.

But all that is just counterpoint to the real topic of the book, which is (in a zen-sort-of-way) fishing. Enjoy!