An exuberant, life-affirming novel of taking your chances After a spur-of-the-moment day out with his boss\' daughter in celebration of his 21st birthday, Polycarp Jarvis decides to quit his Bristol-based junior government worker job.
Going from bus driver for the Red Dragon Motor Company to co-owner of a flying company, to seller of quack med.
Newly emboldened, he embarks on an erratic, engaging and not always strictly legal course through life.
An exuberant, life-affirming novel of taking your chances After a spur-of-the-moment day out with his boss\' daughter in celebration of his 21st birthday, Polycarp Jarvis decides to quit his Bristol-based junior government worker job