When it is your destiny to be the Devil's administrator, you can be forgiven for being a bit frustrated at the cards that fate has dealt you. However, when Freddie Lash accidentally sends the Grim Reaper after one of the 'good' Scoutmasters, he sets in motion a chain of events involving the good, the bad, and the very very ugly. Freddie's life will never be the same again.

If you don't find this funny, you're not going to like the rest of the book:

"The knot on his pyjamas, the one so skilfully copied from Knots for Sailors Vol. 4 was loosening as she approached. Freddie absently noted that his wife must be more powerful than a force ten gale and a stormy sea combined, and still she padded gently forward, barefoot, heels thrown casually over one naked shoulder. "