Following his favourite bands to see them play in Finland seems a good plan to Dan Hart. But when his warm clothes go astray he remembers Scandinavia can be cold.

Dan Hart has an elderly distant relative living in Australia: a good excuse, he decides, to spend Christmas there. Nothing’s going to stop Dan’s plan, even when, the August before, Old Jack becomes Late Jack.

On a trip to Miami, Dan Hart signs up for an airboat ride through Florida’s Everglades. What he doesn’t expect to experience is a leather-clad local punching an alligator in the face.