Synopses & Reviews
When Peace Corps volunteer Michael Killigan goes missing in West Africa, his father Randall and his best friend Boone Westfall begin separate quests to find him. Randall, a bankruptcy lawyer, is the warlord of his world, a shark in a fishbowl, exercising power with mad, relentless, hilarious glee; Boone, an American innocent abroad, journeys to the African bush, protected by the twin charms of the passport and the almighty dollar. In seeking Michael, both men find much more than they bargain for.
Review
"A bravura display of satire . . . Dooling evokes the humane checks and balances of a deep world: the logic, you might say, of its magic."--
Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review "The book is absolutely astonishing; I am a Richard Dooling fan for life."--Phillip M. Margolin, author of Gone, But Not Forgotten
"The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's."--Time
About the Author
Richard Dooling's first novel was
Critical Care. His short fiction has been published by
The New Yorker. He is an attorney who lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife and three children.