Funnier than Psycho, more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge, shorter than War and Peace! The sequel to Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is a witty detective story perfect for fans of the phenomenally successful cult-classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
When a passenger checkin desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame, the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn’t actually anything to do with them at all.
No rational cause could be found for the explosion – it was simply designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 to Oslo?A thumping good detectiveghosthorrorwho dunnittime travelromanticmusicalcomedyepic.
Douglas Adams, on Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
Continue this surreal series with the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.