num_pages: 321
description: Lord Copper, proprietor of the Daily Beast, is persuaded to send fashionable novelist John Boot as a foreign correspondent to cover the civil war in the African republic of Ishmaelia. But owing to a case of mistaken identity he actually sends William Boot, a nature writer.
language: English
title: Scoop
titlecomplete: Scoop
characters: John Courtney Boot, Mr Salter, William Boot
genres: Humor, British Literature, Comedy, Africa, Journalism, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature, 20th Century
ratings_count: 20259
places: Ishmaelia, London, England
publisher: Little, Brown