One of the highest paid footballers on the planet turns up on the Isle of Cumbrae in a hilarious new novel - 'What Spooked Crazy Horse?' - which has recently been released.

From the pen of 'Who Shot Wild Bill' author Alex Gordon, Millport is again the setting for the eagerly awaited sequel.

The synopsis is as follows - Derek ‘Crazy Horse’ Laird is hot property: one of the highest-paid footballers on the planet, with a right foot coveted by Europe’s greatest clubs and what the pundits call ‘a good head on his shoulders’.

So everyone is flummoxed when Crazy Horse skips training, flees his adoptive country and heads back to his homeland, incognito.

Caught up in the tale is debonair sports-journalist turned-detective Charlie Brock (hero of Who Shot Wild Bill?).

Before long, and unawares, both men are ensconced among the boozy, windswept eccentrics who inhabit the Isle of Cumbrae. It is late November, the Firth of Clyde is growing peevish and a small army of international police and ill-intentioned hacks are about to descend on the island, scenting a scandal.

The locals, however, remain oblivious including Wee Effie, Vodka Joe and Dr Hickory Dock.

The book is describe as a hilarious, affectionate and rollicking mystery about two worlds colliding.

Alex's first novel 'Who Shot Wild Bill' featured cowboys, a killing and a Country & Western Festival, was described as a 'rumbustious debut novel'.

He spent over 40 years at the forefront of Scottish football reporting, including as Chief Sports Sub-Editor of the Daily Record and Sports Editor of the Sunday Mail. Alex has written 11 other books on Scottish football, including biographies of Denis Law, Chic Charnley and Yogi Hughes.

For more details, go to the website ringwoodpublishing.com/fiction/what-spooked-crazy-horse-by-alex-gordon/