History Literature / IndecentExposure

* RaceFetish: The white policemen consider sexually assaulting black female prisoners is a rare perk in an underpaid job. Kommandant van Heerden hiself is not averse - but when he feels the need, he takes it over the border to brothels in Portuguese Mozambique, where isn't breaking any South African racial separation law. Liutnant Verkramp keeps a file on his boss to bring out when the time is right.

* TakeThat! - Sharpe's setting in "Piemburg" - a thinly veiled {{Expy}} of Pietermauritzburg, the city in the Transvaal where he worked prior to deportation as an undesirable alien.

* Blackface: Konstabel Els is last seen, naked and black from being covered in powder-burns, among the rampaging asylum patients, hoping to escape before he is detected as white; in itself an inversion of his implied mixed-race status, much remarked on by the Kommandant

* [[BaaBomb ExplodingOstriches]]: figure as a plot point.

* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Dr von Blimenstein's fixation on the weedy Verkramp.

* [[VieweraAreGeniuses Readers Are Geniuses]]: Dornford Yates actually existed in RealLife: he was an author who wrote a series of horrendously dated and UpToEleven hack novels, viewed even in their day as horribly bad writing extolling the virtues of a certain sort of Englishness. InUniverse, the Dornford Yates Club views him as an under-rated genius and literary great.

A novel, set in TheApartheidEra, about the police force in South Africa. A black comedy and satirical tour de farce by Creator/TomSharpe, a man expelled from UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica for being illegally in possession of a sense of humour.

* TheApartheidEra - the setting of the story.

* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Dr von Blimenstein's fixation on the weedy Verkramp.

* SecretPolice: Liutnant Verkramp and the BOSS organisation.

* [[NoTrueScotsman The Only True Englishmen]]: The Dornford Yates Club, dedicated to preserving a long-dead sort of Englishness on the ebb-tide of Empire.

A novel, set in TheApartheidEra, about the police force in South Africa. A black comedy and satrirical tour de farce by Creator/TomSharpe, a man expelled from UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica for being illegally in possession of a sense of humour.

The sequel to ''RiotousAssembly''.

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[[caption-width-right:499:It's as mad as it looks. Crazy secret policeman, larger than life German Nazi refugee, exploding ostriches, and policemen undergoing aversion therapy]]

* Cure Your Gays: Dr von Blimenstein is convinced that a combination of electric shocks, strong emetics and aversion therapy can cure ''anything''. she gets a chance to test this and applies it first to policemen sexually attracted to black women, and then on gays.

* AllPsychologyisFreudian: Dr von Blumenstein's work as a psychiatrist in Piemburg
* TheApartheidEra - the setting of the story

* Cure Your Gays: Dr von Blumenstein is convinced that a combination of electric shocks, strong emetics and aversion therapy can cure ''anything''. she gets a chance to test this and applies it first to policemen sexually attracted to black women, and then on gays.
* [[TheOnlyTrueScotsman The Only True Englishmen]]: The Dornford Yates Club, dedicated to preserving a long-dead sort of Englishness on the ebb-tide of Empire.

* AllPsychologyisFreudian: Dr von Blumentritt's work as a psychiatrist in Piemburg

* Cure Your Gays: Dr von Blumentritt is convinced that a combination of electric shocks, strong emetics and aversion therapy can cure ''anything''. she gets a chance to test this and applies it first to policemen sexually attracted to black women, and then on gays.
* [[OnlyTrueScotsman The Only True Englishmen]]: The Dornford Yates Club, dedicated to preserving a long-dead sort of Englishness on the ebb-tide of Empire.

* [[BaaBomb/ExplodingOstriches]]: figure as a plot point.

!! Die volgende tropes neerkom op 'n onwettige vergadering in die verbreking van die rasseskeiding Handelinge en die wette van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika. Jy het vyf minute om te versprei. The following tropes constitute an illegal assembly in breach of the Racial Separation Acts and the laws of the Republic of South Africa. You have five minutes to disperse.

* [[BaaBomb/Exploding Ostriches]]: figure as a plot point.
* TakeThat! - Sharpe's setting in "Piemburg" - a thinly veiled {{Expy}] of Pietermauritzburg, the city in the Transvaal where he worked prior to deportation as an undesirable alien.

* [[BaaBombs/Exploding Ostriches]]: figure as a plot point.