When you are an inoffensive retired librarian with bitter personal experience of Evil Talking Cats, do you rescue a kitten from the cold on a December night? Do you inquire into long-ago cats who voyaged around the world with Captain Cook? Well, yes. If you are Alec Charles worth that is what you do - with unexpected and terrifying consequences...
From the bestselling author of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", comes a tale of good versus evil involving one man, his dog and a group of 18th century amateur feline scientific pioneers...