Confessions of a Knight Errant is a comedic, picaresque novel in the tradition of Don Quixote with a flamboyant cast of characters. Dr. Gary Watson is the picaro, a radical environmentalist and wannabe novelist who has been accused of masterminding a computer hack that wiped out the files of a major publishing company. His Sancho Panza is Kharalombos, a fat, gluttonous Greek dancing teacher, who is wanted by the secret police for cavorting with the daughter of the Big Man of Egypt. Self-preservation necessitates a hurried journey to the refuge of a girls' camp in rural Texas. Then a body turns up nearby that is connected to Middle East antiquities, and they are on the run once more.

Gretchen McCullough has written a wild ride through Cairo and beyond, a rollicking adventure tale peopled with grifters, reprobates, scalawags, and scoundrels-plus a few femmes fatale tossed in to keep things teetering on chaos. I couldn't put it down!

-Tom Lutz, Portraits: Moments of Intimacy on the Road, Founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books