Uncle and the Treacle Trouble T. Jefferson Parker described by Ian Rankin as

described by Ian Rankin as 'a humane and moving book

No longer able to trust those who hired him (if ever he did)

The god Kremsimir wants the head of Tamas's son

The country is consumed by bloodshed

and must live with the moral consequences of his actions

Uncle and the Treacle Trouble T. Jefferson Parker described by Ian Rankin asA great mural, commissioned by the King of the Badgers after the defeat of the Badfort crowd at Crack House, is to be painted on the wall at Homeward by Waldovenison Smeare. To protect the mural while it is being painted Uncle employs a watchman called Sleepy Sam, who sleeps in a wheelbarrow and is paid two loaves of bread and two quarts of Koolvat. Sleepy Sam is immediately put to work when Beaver Hateman tries to climb in through Uncle's window . . .