The Fixer

After more than 50 years in journalism, Bob Andrews decided it was time to come clean and disclose the tricks of his often maligned trade. Andrews—author of “Boom Boom Baby”: and “Sticky Rice at the Orchid Café—takes the reader on a tour of his old haunts in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. “It reads like a detective story,” said a writer for Le Monde, Paris.

Britain’s phone-hacking scandal is nothing new, according to veteran reporter Bob Andrews in his latest book, a memoir that he also describes as a “confession.” Andrews—author of “Boom Boom Baby” and “Sticky Rice at the Orchid Café”—describes in his usual humorous style a controversial career covering more than 50 years of traveling through Europe, North America, Africa and Asia hunting the stories that made the news.