If you revel in dazzling wordplay, inventive turns of phrase and off-the-wall humour then this is for you! The saying 'if something can go wrong, it will' might have been written for Milo Burke. As the book opens, he is married, a father and part of a fundraising team for the Arts Department of a mediocre New York university. Soon, however, his comfortable, if unadventurous, life begins to unravel and Milo finds himself in a battle for survival.