The Summoner of Basingstoke: Book I of the Cruickshank Chronicles

Montmorency, Albion's most powerful black mage has hatched a fiendish plot to unleash MBAs, spreadsheets and modern management methods across the land. He must be stopped, and the Free Dragons know the right man for the job. But they get the wrong one, and the very non-professional Andrew Cruickshank is brought to Albion as the occult consultant to Albion's top Adventure Team. Armed with a lethally temperamental magic staff, the catastrophically unpredictable spell system Tarot 5.1 and a total ignorance of occult principles and practices, Andrew leads his new colleagues across the country leaving a trail of destruction and confusion, until they reach Basingstoke...