The Gopher Prince

He's a brilliant actor, but nobody in Hollywood will hire him-simply because he's a gopher."If you made a list of all the interesting animals in the world," a snide casting director tells him, "dogs would be at the top, and gophers would be way down near the bottom, right under the word BORING. And writers aren't paid to write about boring animals." "But I'm not boring," Mudflap objects. "My agent says I have star quality!" "Well," the casting director sneers, "your agent is wrong!" His soul nearly crushed, Mudflap wants to curl up in a gopher hole and die. But then he gets to thinking, "Why should I feel bad? It isn't my fault. It's Hollywood's. They're the ones with the problem, not me." And he sets off on a quest to prove that gophers aren't boring, a quest, the Pebble Post writes, "that is as grand and adventurous as Don Quixote's," a quest that almost gets him eaten by a giant snake, a quest that throws him into the path of two thugs chasing a beautiful but mysterious female gopher, a quest that puts him in the crosshairs of a deadly drug lord so ugly the doctor slapped his mother when he was born instead of him, a quest that ultimately turns him into a national hero, then into a movie star, and finally into a Prince of the Underground. "A perfect blend of comedy, drama, and romance, THE GOPHER PRINCE," the Pebble Post concludes, "is hands down-or rather paws down-one of the greatest novels of all time!" (Previously published as MUDFLAP THE GOPHER.)