What does a consul do when a couple arrives at the consulate dressed in their bathing suits asking for help? What to do with a rapidly decomposing corpse in the outback of tropical Papua New Guinea? How do the financial donations bound for Africa end up on the private accounts of the ruling elites and arms dealers? This book is a frankly-written collection of anecdotes from his thirty years in the Swiss foreign service.

Beat Moser lived and worked in Sudan, Australia, South Africa, Russia, Indonesia and various countries in Europe. He spent over thirty years in the Swiss foreign service.