Eddie Izzard - action transvestite boy racer and male tomboy - spent the 1990s conquering Britain. As the decade ended he looked further afield. "Dressed To Kill" his stand-up tour saw him transport his high heels and off-the-shoulder numbers to New York Los Angeles and San Francisco taking a natural comedian's delight in the differences separating the two sides of the Pond. In this book he reflects on his birth in Yemen and his childhood in Northern Ireland Wales and London and muses on animals male tomboys street theatre sex crime God "The Great Escape" Bible stories starring Sean Connery and James Mason and cats who dig for oil. He also reflects on the trials and tribulations of being an cross-dressing surrealist comedian intent on making it in America.