The Incompetent Cook

EVERY STORY HAS A DISH. EVERY DISH HAS A STORY. The Incompetent Cook is a novel in ten stories. Together they form a single narrative about a reluctant adventurer who travels the world on a quest to find his direction in life. Along the way, fate ambushes him with a sequence of quixotic predicaments that become milestones in his journey. Sometimes thriller, sometimes black comedy, sometimes boy’s own adventure, The Incompetent Cook is a cruise full of oddballs and ruffnecks, prize-fighters, crooked cops, red-Indians, drunken sailors, kidnappers and all kinds of skulduggery. Adding a unique twist to this smorgasbord of action, plot and human singularity, each story comes with a recipe as food plays a part in each drama; like when a left-over stew proves to be evidence of marital infidelity. These quirky reminiscences are told with a laid-back humour and fluid simplicity that carry the reader effortlessly through the curls and coils of some tantalising plots and hilarious situations.