Close Encounters of the Furred Kind
is the follow-up to the
Sunday Times
Top Ten Bestseller
The Good, The Bad, and the Furry
. Like
The Good, The Bad, and the Furry,
it tells the story of Tom Cox's life with his charismatic cats—The Bear, Shipley, Ralph, and recent recruit Roscoe.
begins with a long, emotional goodbye to Norfolk, and continues with another amazing new lease on life for The Bear, the Benjamin Button of the cat world, among the bluebells and verdant hedgerows of Devon. Readers who became attached to The Bear's magical, owlish persona during his previous adventures will become more so here as he proves, once again, that he's a cat with endless secrets and significantly more than nine lives.