SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"An outstanding first novel...The eponymous hero is a salesman,
kidnapped in error by eco-terrorists. Hennigan sustains his protagonist's
voice wonderfully, as Robertson worries about his lack of embossed business
cards and the deficit of decent Chardonnay in the jungles of South-East Asia.
GAWKER
"There are very few great novels about business; we'd put this one in that category...The book is subtitled "A Tale of Adventure," but it's actually an astounding work of comedy."
THE TIMES
"This unusual novel is written from the perspective of a globetrotting salesman who
gets more satisfaction from a neatly packed suitcase than from human contact. On a night
out in Bangkok he meets a woman for a drink, and wakes up as the hostage of a group of
environmental terrorists. His pragmatic use of his sales skills makes this near-death
tale of a salesman hilarious."
THE GUARDIAN
"At first glance, Patrick Robertson did not bode well: the Thai
adventures of a salesman sounded like something we could all live without. So imagine, if
you can, my surprise when only 10 pages in I was reduced to a kind of delighted, giggly
hysteria and was showing signs of extreme reluctance to be parted from it for long...
You'll be choked throughout with an equal mix of laughter and outrage."
THE SCOTSMAN
"This is a hugely entertaining novel. Its plot - the story of a
kidnap by eco-guerrillas - may occasionally abandon the picaresque and embrace the
outrageously coincidental, but it pulls off a trick rare in comic novels: it gets funnier
and funnier."
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
"...a fast-moving comic thriller that twists and turns right to the end."