IPPY Bronze Medal for Best Fiction Paddy Pest is the garrulous gumshoe/secret agent fromDown-Under. He is completely indestructible, totally irresistible to women andgenerally a horse's ass. Gerry Burke completes a four-volume series ofhilarious short stories with a biographical focus on Paddy's ever-sufferingassociates and adversaries such as Stormy Weathers, Yvette Baguette, GregoriaKillanova and Nadia Nickoff, the minx from Minsk.