Where's Bob? One minute the amiable New Yorker is walking down an English country lane with a half brother pondering the oddness of rural English folk the next he's in the back of an army truck and the victim of an unwanted odyssey that takes him back to America thence to Africa and beyond. The hunt then begins by his substantial extended family to track him down and free him from bureaucratic incompetence, men predisposed to sadistic violence and the very worst of 'easy listening' music If you want a fast paced, hilarious, and at times obscene tale of the madness that is men this the book...

The murder, madness and mayhem continues in this, the third part of the 'Odds & Sods' trilogy, a trilogy that uniquely features the domestic kettle and the humble bar of soap as offensive weapons Enjoy with incredulity.

Remember your mid teens? Chanced your arm and succeeded in getting yourself into a night club? No? What about forming a heavy metal band with a view to attracting girls? Still drawing a blank? Then the chances are that you're not a survivor of that most fearsome of British institutions in the nineteen seventies, the English secondary modern school. Read with incredulity how a time, a place and a country seemingly in terminal decline, conspired to produce Armour Plated, in this, the third and final part of the Telling Tales trilogy.

What do successful ice cream salesman George Clooney, newly qualified plumber Kanye West, argumentative congenital liar Sir Clive Chutney, failed method actor turned gardener Brandon Marlowe, body waste obsessed artist Tommy Iwo Jima, enigmatic soccer coach Tagliatelle 'Footy' Fettuccinne and Les the dyslexic tattooist have in common? They are all, in one way or another, connected to M C Redwinter, a gun toting maniac...and man about town.