The Romance Office: UNIRO, #1

By Zin Murphy

The mission of the International Romance Office is to spread love and romance in the world. How will its new Vice Coordinator, idealistic Frank Feydeau, shape up to the task? Out of his comfort zone in corruption-hardened Italy, how will he deal with people he finds using the Office for their own sordid ends? A gentle satire on bureaucracies everywhere.

• Language: English
• Publisher: UNIRO Books
• Release date: Nov 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393597865

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This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, places or events is purely coincidental. The characters are products of the author’s imagination.

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The Romance Office

In the end, Singapore fell to Ikeda.

Frank Feydeau was horrified. Naturally. Singapore was the ripest fruit in the whole orchard. Wealthy, efficient, sparkling, ultra-modern. Low crime, no dissent, few hassles, precious little that needed coordinating. Dying for Romance. And easy to get away from when you wanted to go somewhere lively for the weekend. The plum job.

Feydeau could not spit it out in front of the big boss, so he swallowed his disgust when he heard from the horse’s mouth that Fumihiro Ikeda was to be the new Chief Coordinator in Singapore. OK, Ikeda checked boxes: he was not Chinese, Malay or Tamil, Singapore’s uneasy mix of ethnicities, but he was Asian. He just did not have Feydeau’s experience. Not by a long chalk. Frank had been robbed.

Di Vieto, the big boss, was rattling on, unperturbed, as though he were doing Feydeau a favour.

"This is a more important job, Frank. I’m counting on you to raise the profile of