When Your Chickens Come Home to Roost

Four United Nations staff members meet in Turin and speculate what it may take to embezzle money from the organisation. What might lead them to do so: greed, envy, the challenge, disaffection, defiance, provocation? “When Your Chickens Come Home to Roost” follows these four characters in their exploits.“When Your Chickens Come Home to Roost” is the title story in a collection of seven short stories which will take the reader to Geneva, New York, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, Addis Ababa, Mogadishu, Erbil, Walda, Nairobi, Bangkok and many more global locations.We meet Alistaire Fitzroy Abercromby-Calthorpe, a journalist who has an urge to revisit the place where his career began; Amin, who unwittingly begins a riot; Tafesse, who does what he feels is necessary in order to survive in a refugee camp; Sten, the UN official who ponders the meaning of life; Sabine, who ponders the meaning of a career; Malcolm, a former policeman, who hones his investigative skills; and Shoshana, who would simply like all the refugees to go home.To those readers who have worked in the United Nations, or any large organisation for that matter, many situations will be familiar. For those readers who have not, these stories will offer an insight into the complexities of working in an international organisation.

Pages: 252, Paperback, Independently published