Elizabeth Mayfield works for a branch of the British government named OOPSI (Office of Occult and Paranormal Sightings Investigation) and has just been sent on her first big mission. She needs to find out who or what is attacking Fionna Kenmare, lead singer for an Irish acid-rock band called Green Fire who are just about to embark on their breakthrough American tour which is about to commence in (pre Katrina) New Orleans at the Superdome. Of course the Americans can't have a British agent left to her own devices on American soil so she is to be accompanied on this protection detail by Beauray "Boo-Boo" Boudreau the current specialist that department BBB has on retainer in that area of the country. Can Liz overcome her shock discovery of Fionna being an old scool chum or that one of her musical idols is also a member of the band in time for her and Boo-Boo to discover what's going on and prevent a catastrophe from occurring in front of 80,000 people?

All the ingredients are there for what should be a fun romp in an urban fantasy setting. Unfortunately the cardboard and clichéd characters offer very little to care about without any of the humorous banter I've come to associate with Asprin's usual fare. Only the New Orleans setting offers up any enchantment and that's far too under utilised to mitigate a fairly dour effort. I've come away from this book thinking I should remove the humour tag from my library entry as the only smile it garnered was one of relief when I finally finished it. ( )

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