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Don't Come Back: A funny travel adventure of bad-tempered baboons, black magic, and breakups
Written by Adam Fletcher
Narrated by Liam Gerrard
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Adam Fletcher's life hates him . . .
That's how it feels since he lost his girlfriend of nine years, his confidence, hair, and home.
But then he receives an email from a mysterious stranger offering him a free holiday of a lifetime. It's too good to be true. But then what does he have to lose?
So he says yes. And then things gets strange . . .
Catapulted through the wilds of South Africa, Cuba, and Indonesia, he must fight an angry baboon armed with just a sock; hike into an active volcano to meet people with the worst job in the world; have coffee and biscuits with a stranger's dead grandma; go on a double-date with a very flirtatious princess; stare down hungry Komodo dragons; be rushed to hospital by emergency speedboat; and discover why it's a really bad idea to become a gold digger in Papua New Guinea.
A lot of strange things are about to happen to him. He's not ready for any of them . . .
That's how it feels since he lost his girlfriend of nine years, his confidence, hair, and home.
But then he receives an email from a mysterious stranger offering him a free holiday of a lifetime. It's too good to be true. But then what does he have to lose?
So he says yes. And then things gets strange . . .
Catapulted through the wilds of South Africa, Cuba, and Indonesia, he must fight an angry baboon armed with just a sock; hike into an active volcano to meet people with the worst job in the world; have coffee and biscuits with a stranger's dead grandma; go on a double-date with a very flirtatious princess; stare down hungry Komodo dragons; be rushed to hospital by emergency speedboat; and discover why it's a really bad idea to become a gold digger in Papua New Guinea.
A lot of strange things are about to happen to him. He's not ready for any of them . . .
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