Crocodile Trapp

This, the fourth of Brian Callison's phenomenally successful Captain Edward Trapp sagas, again sees its narrator, the stiff-upper-lipped Chief Officer Miller, become haplessly embroiled in yet more ocean-going mayhem under the shameless old reprobate's avaricious command - only, this time, with a supernatural twist. For what other explanation could there be for the seeming reincarnation of the Captain's Great-great-great-great-somethin'-or-other GRANDPA Blackbeard Trapp: the wurstest, most cruellest, mos' fearsomest, mos' diabolickle Pyrate there ever wus ... but wait: we steam ahead of ourselves here. Suffice to say we do it, as ever, in the company of Trapp's inept and cowardly crew: scurvy dogs all of 'em, including the cretinous Gorbals Wullie, Trapp's accident-prone watch keeper, Blind Spew, and his psychopathic Bosun, Choker Bligh.

And the unexplored Papua New Guinea jungle swamps. An' the mad Professor. And Ye Olde Treasure Chest. And the pursuing Chinese Triads, an' the crocodile and the ...

What's that ...? 'The CROCODILE?' you ask? Look, it's not so much the crocodile, Miller discovers he has to worry about. It's the SIZE of the crocodile that ...

Welcome aboard the coffin ship 'Charon' yet again. There are those who have even been known to survive the voyage.

'Callison's writing is superb. Engaging, witty and clever, with lots of lovely black humour.' Million Magazine.


Genre: Historical