The Great Pursuit - Tom Sharpe

When snuff-taking, port-drinking, and financially strapped literary agent Frensic receives a manuscript with "bestseller" written all over it, he begins to salivate over the potentially huge profits. The one catch is that the author must remain anonymous, so Frensic produces a stand-in, Peter Piper, to pose as the writer of this "Lolita-in-reverse" -- a trans-Atlantic hoax that inevitably gets out of hand. The Great Pursuit is one of the most hilarious send-ups of publishing ever!