Click here to return to book details For immediate release February 1, 2001 What do Frank mccourt, Terry Mcmillan, and up-and-coming novelist H. w. Crocker have in common? The answer is they were all chosen to be part of Barnes & Noble’s “Discover Great New Writers” program. For ten years the Discover program has helped launch the careers of many outstanding new authors, such as Frank McCourt, author of the blockbuster Angela’s Ashes, Terry McMillan, and Jhumpa Lahiri, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. This year Barnes & Noble has chosen H. W. Crocker III’s The Old Limey, calling it the Winter 2001 Discover program’s most “outrageous” choice, “howlingly satirical,” and a “hilarious romp.” The Old Limey is the story of a retired, reactionary, British brigadier general-Nigel Haversham, “the old limey”-searching for his goddaughter in Los Angeles, where she has mysteriously disappeared. What he finds is a web of comic chaos that includes California beach babes, Jamaican drug gangs, and other colorful characters, feuding and fighting in a mad-and hilarious-search and rescue operation that keeps the reader both tense with excitement and overtaken with laughter. Barnes & Noble senior book buyer Edward Ash-Milby says: “The Old Limey is one of the most entertaining books I’ve encountered in a long time. As a buyer, more than 300 titles cross my desk in any given month. I read roughly 50 of them. Plenty are good reads, some of them great, a few are memorable. [The Old Limey] falls into the latter category. What a joy to read this book!… It’s probably the most laugh-out-loud novel I’ve read in ages.” Other readers have been equally impressed. Christopher Buckley, author of Little Green Men, says, “Until I read The Old Limey, I had no idea that sex, drugs, booze, and elderly British generals could be such fun.” The Asian Wall Street Journal calls The Old Limey “a sharp criticism of the moral, intellectual and artistic decadence of the times, all wrapped in a hilarious page-turning package.” Robin Moore, author of The French Connection and The Green Berets, proclaims The Old Limey “a latter day P. G. Wodehouse with more than a dash of stiff-upper-lipped Walter Mitty day-dreaming thrown in.” The Washington Post calls The Old Limey “obnoxious” and “very funny” and Publishers Weekly deems it “a wacky comedy” with a “riotous surprise ending.” We hope you share in the excitement over this promising new novel, The Old Limey. For more information or to schedule an interview with the author please call Gwen Nappi at 202-216-0601 ext. 487 or Stephanie Marshall ext. 488. Price: $15.95 - Click here to order: Click here to return to book details