Looking for Mrs Dextrose by Nick Griffiths has received a fantastic review from author site Writers Box:
'In this wilfully quirky sequel to In the Footsteps of Harrison Dextrose, mild-mannered protagonist Alexander Grey finally tracks down his hero - the gruff, sozzled author of 'The Lost Incompetent: a Bible for the Inept Traveller' - in a jungle shack in a twisted, far-off land like no place on earth. Dextrose is a sort of failed Indiana Jones, a perma-drunk with a nose like "the overripe strawberry that everyone leaves in the punnet". There's a shock in store for young Alexander at the outset, and along with the somewhat begrudging Dextrose, his mission becomes to track down the elusive Mrs D. Helped on their way by a ventriloquist shaman who communicates only through his dummy, they set off on a road trip down the paradoxically-named 'Nameless Highway', encountering all manner of madness en route. Despite the mostly foreign setting, it's a determinedly British affair in the spirit of the Tom Sharpe and Douglas Adams. This is picaresque, character-based fiction, a little light on plot but high on whimsy and incident. A thoroughly enjoyable, four-star romp.'
Lucy
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