# Scoop

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- Book: [Scoop](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh/scoop) ([Scoop.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh/scoop.md))
- Authors: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh), [Simon Cadell](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-cadell)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-717-8
- Published: 2012-05-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast , has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. But for, pale, ineffectual William Boot, editor of the Daily Beast 's 'nature notes' column, being mistaken for a competent journalist may prove to be a fatal error...