How to rule the world. Fisher T.

Baxter Stone is a chronic loser. The director and veteran of television studies, he experiences serious problems in London's control. He cannot get out of debts after the insurance company deceived him. Special services prevent him from living. Dear foreign cars act on his nerves. All this can be changed if you remove the breakthrough documentary, which will bring Bakster money and glory. But will it be possible to change fate at once if the whole world is against you? One of the main British satirists of our time returns with a new stunning novel about the crazy life of television people.

Baxter Stone-50-year-old documentary television veteran. He understands that the days of his glory have long been behind. The situation on TV has long changed, and what is ready to offer a Baxter is not interesting to anyone. The rules of the game in TV business are such that if by 50 you have not acquired your own studio or did not become a boss, then you are a loser. Joe`i, a boss of one of the television studios, around which the hero turns in the hope of getting the opportunity to prove one of the documentaries. Baxter understands that his chances are small: once his big idea that he financed by laying the house failed, and the other documentary was recognized as too cheerful, and Joe’s believes that documentaries should be gloomy. With new projects, Baxter falls into one nuisance, then into another. The presenters disappear in the middle of the filming, the programs for which he collected the material suddenly puts someone else, the operators fall into trouble. “How to rule the world” is a satire on what happened to the world of documentary cinema recently.