Prankster is about a prankster, Trager, from another planet who comes to Earth to play tricks on the humans. Like planting Triceratops bones for them to ponder over, or getting them to build pyramids, all very funny for the guys back home who watch the TV show that he fronts. But this time the prank is on him as he is dropped off in Earth in the wrong place, Santa Fe, and he can only return by getting to San Francisco quick-time before the opportunity closes. And he can't take a plane as it wouldn’t agree with him.
So that is the novel. The actual setting up of the other world where Trager comes from at the beginning of the book is a bit cumbersome I felt and hard to get into, but as soon as he found himself on Earth that’s when the novel picked up for me what with the cross-country race against time, whilst also being pursued by a persistent policeman.
So overall I liked it with its interesting idea about how a lot of Earth’s past was manipulated for a alien prank show although the beginning didn’t grip me immediately.
(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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