Leonard Wibberley
The Mouse That Roared

"Ingenious." —Christian Science Monitor

"As funny as it is charming." —New York Times

"Original, entertaining, enchanting." —New York Herald Tribune

When this ingenious cold war satire was first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post almost fifty years ago, it appeared under the title The Day New York Was Invaded. At the time, the U.S. was afraid of a nuclear attack by Russia — the idea of an attack by a small country was so absurd as to seem comical. These days, the premise of Wibberley's novel seems nothing so much as eerily prophetic.

Grand Fenwick is furious about sneaky U.S. business practices, so they send a ramshackle army to New York City, march up Broadway, and accidentally capture the world's newest and most destructive bomb. As global superpowers scramble to make sense of this sudden reversal, Grand Fenwick is forced to confront its new status—as the most powerful nation on the planet. A whimsical cross between Kubrick and Kafka, The Mouse That Roared is a quirky classic of world literature, a poignant tale of political morality, and a hilarious, ultimately triumphant portrait of international relations from the perspective of the little guy.

Leonard Wibberley was born in Ireland and spent much of his life in California. A prolific author and journalist, he died in 1983.

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