Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Dr. Alfred Jones of the London Fisheries Center receives a strange proposal from a mysterious sheikh: to introduce a salmon fishing competition in Yemen. Dr. Jones refuses, but the scientifically absurd project catches the eye of British politicians, who see almost unlimited possibilities in the Sheikh's proposal. And here begins the stormy epistolary activity of all characters from the prime minister to the stenographers, in which salmon fishing has absolutely no meaning, except to distract the public from more important things, for example, from the war in Iraq. Dr. Jones' arguments about the high-profile failure of a high-profile project do not bother anyone, however, the hero continues to try to live his life, being first a pawn and then a victim of a political game.