Make my eye go big – Book review

Book:  Isaac Steele and the Forever Man

As far as I am aware (admittedly, unlike the eponymous hero of this book, I am no super-sleuth), this release is only available in audiobook format. Although, if you ever have the pleasure of listening, you’ll understand why that might be the case.

Written and narrated by actor and comedian, Daniel Rigby, Isaac Steele and the Forever Man is a strange beast and one which, given the production values of this adventure, works very well as a kind of audio play. There are sound affects, music, distorted voices and through it all, Rigby’s own superb narration of the jilted anti-hero, one Isaac Steele, and altogether this creates a sci-fi cacophony of intergalactic madness. Think Red Dwarf meets Hercule Poirot meets Total Recall – a bizarre mix, I think you’ll agree.

For his part, Agent Isaac Steele has issues. He drinks a lot, takes a lot of drugs, speaks every known language and has an android for a partner. The crux of the matter is that Agent Steele has to solve yet another case before a cataclysmic event wipes Greatest Britain off the star-map.

This journey brings Steele up against a range of wacky aliens before he becomes tangled with the titular Forever Man and must then face a range of demons from his own shady past.

Funny (in places), sarcastic, fun, absurd and most of all, utterly bonkers, Isaac Steele and the Forever Man is an audiobook for the discerning space anarchist.

Also, he makes his eye go big A LOT.