The Secret Diary of Alice of Wonderland, Aged 42 and Three-Quarters

She's a real-estate broker and is running through a parking lot at a mall, trying to get away from a car, when she spots a cat with a human-like grin. Some guys grab her and throw her into the car and take off. One guy says he is an attorney and represents somebody named Marc Hare. He tells her she has to testify against her boss and for Hare, or she will be killed. He's also trying to find out about a company called Red Queen, Ltd.

She sees people as related to characters in Alice Wonderland, such as two of the thugs looking like the Tweedles and one guy looking like the walrus.

She gets a diary and starts keeping entries, planning to flee to England to escape the thugs. She makes an Internet connection with a guy from England. She gets kidnapped again. Again she's freed. Her new friend Nigel from England meets her and they tour Europe, but it seems he is hiding something. He also is married but in the process of getting a divorce with an extremely angry soon-to-be ex-wife.

Things go on from there, later involving cannibalistic rabbits, more of the Cheshire Cat, beheadings and a whole boatload of crooked lawyers and one very crooked lawyer.

If you strip all of the Alice in Wonderland references out of the book, then the book is actually fairly good and makes sense. It's actually hard to see why the author used the references to Alice in Wonderland at all; they are totally unnecessary and, to some degree, weaken the quality of the book.

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