"Delete This at Your Peril is a very, very funny book and a perfect present for anybody who has: A) a sense of humour and B) gets irritated by Internet spammers and their tiresome scams. Bob Servant, 62-year-old window cleaner and Dundee's former cheeseburger kingpin, wages war on the scammers and their promises of easy money, love and gainful employment. The hilarity comes from Bob's outrageous demands and the way he pulls the spammers into his own crazy, mundane and out of register world. You will piss yourself and then quote sections of this book repeatedly within your circle of friends" -
Irvine Welsh, part of
Esquire Magazine's The Fifty Funniest Books EverIncredibly funny -
Jimmy Boyle, author of A Sense of Freedom
"COMEDY and literature have a rather vexed relationship. (This) reminds me how good good comic writing can be..The surrealism is perfect: Bob wants an African prince to pay him in lions, seeks legal advice when he kidnaps a postman and woos his Russian bride with a pet emu (everyone in Broughty Ferry has one). The reader, as much as the fraudsters, is drawn into Bob's manic world and hare-brained schemes: we meet his friends Frank Theplank and Chappy Williams, tag along on a vodka and Irn Bru fuelled bender, and wonder what exactly the gypsies did with his ladders. There's a wonderful tie-in website (http: //bobservant.com) where the reader can catch up with the ongoing adventures, including his book launch, how to impersonate an octopus and some trouble with an 89-year-old joiner. A word of warning. Reading is supposed to be a solitary experience. My wife reminded me of this fact on the umpteenth interruption of "You've got to read this bit". Well, you should". -
Scotland on Sunday"It's the time of year when bookshops dedicate an unprecedented acreage of shelf space to that mayfly of the book world, the 'Humour and Gift'' title. Like the mayfly, their lifespan is woefully short. The very best become as familiar as a beloved family pet. Hurrah for Bob Servant! He wreaks revenge on the fraudsters, making them dance to his tune with his wonderfully surreal replies. Read it in private as it will make you laugh out loud, and as for Bob's victims, it really couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of crooks".
- The Book Magazine