Life is suddenly looking up for William Wooding.

Thirty-five, overweight, sedately employed and unhappily married, he is given the chance to escape to a new life in South America.

There he runs the English Bookshop and discovers a different kind of existence: anarchic staff, a beautiful prostitute called Theresa, intrigue at Maria's Tango Club (the local house of pleasure) and a country heading for a bloody coup. Wooding discovers that the country's young president is an old school friend and as a consequence finds himself recruited by the mysterious Mr Box of British Intelligence to investigate what is going on…

Tango is a hugely enjoyable mixture of sexual escapades, revolutionary politics, and intelligence-gathering in exotic landscapes. It confirms Alan Judd as the contemporary successor to Evelyn Waugh.

Very entertaining… it makes you want to turn the pages. No mean achievement
Sunday Telegraph

Well-constructed, witty and at times moving
Independent

An enjoyable book which made me laugh out loud… Alan Judd has a real gift for satire
NewStatesman

The breezy satirical blend of carnival and cruelty is never less than nicely judged
Observer