Tim Cahill went on the many adventures in these stories. A quick-tongued devil pointing out the absurd rode along. Guess which one wrote the stories. You'll meet Fabrice, the con man, a Liberian who runs his scam on Cahill while they do what all travelers do, wait, in this case for paperwork to clear. You enter South African great white feeding grounds in a chicken wire cage. You climb el Capitan knowing a life-threatening maneuver with the rope is necessary at the top. And in one, you just hike with the dog to "not actually" pray--he is a lapsed Catholic--in the woods for a little girl going through spine surgery. Get the picture? No hitting you over the head, but tugging unmistakably at you in each one. And, like a sip of Pappy Van Winkle's, the pleasure is immediate, brief, and one you'll want again.