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Book SynopsisUniversity London Central, a middling university, finds itself in a scandalous mess. Special measures require the wholesaleremoval of its administration. The new vice-chancellor, Professor Clifford Conquest, is a seasoned public sector enforcer; adedicated organisation man facing multiple challenges. His greatest is a chance encounter with a beautiful pole dancer, JulietteBurton.He is unable to shake off his obsession with her. She is, as misfortune would have it, a student of his university. His conflictingimpulses to manage his university judiciously and further his erotic imaginings put him in danger of becoming the target of thevery machinery of academic disciplining he has set in motion. Schemes designed to rectify the ills of the university begin to crumble:inept academics defy his attempts to discredit them, an insurrection of Chinese students turns ugly and a symbolic dismembermentthreatens his career.
At the centre of this whirlwind is the self-possessed Juliette, t
