Oh Dear Me

Peter Parker a young British diplomat in Ceauşescus Romania goes on a trade promotion visit with Stefan Teduscu a locally engaged Commercial Officer. He recklessly has a one-night stand with a local girl. Stefan secretly a member of the Romanian Secret Service discovers his indiscretion. Peter returns to Bucharest feeling anxious and guilty and watching every shadow. He gets involved with Mavis his boss secretary and makes her pregnant.Twenty years later Peter arrives in Barbados as the British High Commissioner. After an incident at the airport Peters posting rapidly goes downhill. He struggles to deal with the incompetence of Angus his alcoholic deputy and his own character weaknesses.Life gets even more complicated when Stefan now a dubious businessman turns up as the leader of a Trade Mission and tries to blackmail him. Meanwhile Nicu a problem solver for a South American cartel is contracted to eliminate Stefan; a task which he addresses enthusiastically.Concern is being felt at the top of the Foreign Office that all is not well in Barbados. Peters efforts to control his rapidly deteriorating work and family situation and Nicus vain attempts to despatch Stefan dissolve into near farce reaching a climax at a Reception in the High Commissioners Residence.