Nicholas Quick and the Man from the Chaos Dimension - H.L. Romquist

A hilarious, fantastical, middle-grade novel full ofmagic, hijinks, gangsters and a talking dog! Welcome to the world of NicholasQuick! To Be Rescued: Nicholas E. Quick Eleven-year-old boy withdark hair and dark eyes. Right-handed. Can’t whistle. Has a birthmark in theshape of Argentina behind his left knee.When eleven-year-old Nicholas Quick and his parents tryto escape from a mob of gangsters, Nicholas is shocked to discover four things:his family possesses secret magic, some dogs can talk, books make delicioussandwiches . . . and he has been left behind. Teaming up with magical privateinvestigator Maxwell Powers, Nicholas sets off on a quest to rescue his parentsand stop the evil Blackwell. There’s just one problem: Max has inconvenientlylost his appendix, and with it all, of his magic. What ensues is a cheeky,nonstop comedic adventure full of laughs, peril, scenic prisons, falsemustaches, and suspect tea parties.