Bob Servant takes BBC Breakfast News by storm

Neil Forsyth, author of Delete This At Your Peril: The Bob Servant Emails was on BBC Breakfast News on Saturday morning and the publishers (Birlinn) saw an immediate spike on sales on Amazon. Delete This At Your Peril rose to number 18 in the book rankings over the weekend – a fantastic achievement – and remains just outside the top 100 48 hours later. The final episode in the BBC Radio 4 series The Bob Servant Emails, is aired at 11.15 on Wednesday evening this week. If you are looking for a hearty laugh, this one is not to be missed.

Delete This at Your Peril: The Bob Servant Emails

This is an hilarious collection of email exchanges starring the anti-hero of spam, Bob Servant. Spam is the plague of the electronic age, comprising 90% of all emails sent and conning over £150m a year from British victims. Into this wave of corruption steps the brave figure of Bob Servant – a former window cleaner and cheeseburger magnate with a love of wine, women and song as well as a keen sense of fair play. This wickedly funny and original book features the anarchic exchanges between Bob and the hapless spam merchants. As they offer Bob lost African millions, Russian brides and get-rich-quick scams he responds by generously offering some outlandish schemes of his own. The spammers may have breached his firewall, but they have met their match as Bob Servant rises heroically to the challenge, and sows confusion in his wake.

Bob Servant is a sixty-two-year-old, semi-retired resident of Dundee. He has previously worked as a merchant sailor and window cleaner, among other occupations, but now describes himself as ‘an unemployed gigolo’.