Reviewing 'This Is Not A Drill', Shakespeare wrote of:
"...disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth ’scapes..."
- lines he later used in 'Othello'. Paul Carter's sequel to 'Don't Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs' covers some of the same ground, but with different anecdotes, and brings his story up to date. Running pipe around the world, Carter has graduated, partly through his fascination with and qualification in advertising, into a more conscious and calculating reviewer of the social fabric of the oilfield and its context; Afghanistan, China, Russia, are sketched in terse, frank and often very funny terms. Carter discovers his true love, whom he marries, and is reconciled with his father, who provides the anecdotal material for one entire chapter. En route we encounter a motley crew of eccentrics and larger than life characters from a world where mad and macho meet. A good read. ( )