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Title: Spying, Surfing, Shagging
Review: No doubt there are a lot of things they don't tell you when you sign on for a hitch at The Agency.Gus discovers when he is detailed to the embassy in Indonesia that the other station hands are only interested in golf and diplomatic parties. Fortunately our hero has packed his surf boards, and arrives just when the country is being opened up as a surfing paradise. Along the way he also finds exotic women and interesting bars, forms an entourage of locals and international expatriates, and even commits a little espionage.The book is kind of an inverse of Graham Greene's "Our Man in Havana"; instead of making stuff up for his handlers, Gus tries to avoid telling his boss about the contact he has made with an Iraqi diplomat on the cusp of the first Gulf War. While chuckling at Gus's bureaucratic entanglements with his superiors, the reader gets a travelogue of Indonesian beaches and colorful details of Jakarta nightlife.
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