In this parody of the popular Where’s Wally? series, Daniel Lalic illustrates and Xavier Waterkeyn narrates a world where your mission, should you choose to grab this book, is to succeed where the rest of the world has failed: to find the “world’s number one wanted man”.

Publishing a humorous take on a dangerous and potentially explosive (don’t excuse the pun) subject is a tricky matter given the temptation that the world’s decadent Westernised cities hold as potential targets to the Osama Posse back in the real world. Lalic, however,  skillfully emphasizes Bin Laden’s indisputable villain status with a caricature based more on the demonized Rasputin from the Anastacia cartoon than the real-life model; who looks he’s seen a wedgie or twelve back in school.

Lalic and Waterkeyn succeed in creating a dynamic backdrop to the Bin Baby and Co’s trail across possible Western targets.  The posse is accompanied by a lone CIA agent who is in it for the cash rather than conviction and Miss Patty Furst, the determined mother-to-be of Bin Laden’s lurve child. An explanation for why Australia is the least likely target (it’s a loooong way from anywhere else, mate) along with caricatures of iconic Aussies including Dame Edna and one unnamed Oscar-winning actress make this an especially entertaining parody.