Armed with a trench knife, an iron-shooting trench gun, and his ancestral Sgian-dubh, Duncan Silver is a woodsman, hired to retrieve lost children from the wicked forest fairies - a task he accomplishes with an excess of violence, gratuitous swearing, and occassional graphic sex with beautiful women.
Cinema guarantees the exact same performance and homogeneity of experience wherever you go. Watching amateur dramatics in small, local theatres is... fun.
Bizarre phenomena form the background to this series of five novels, but they aren't the plot. The staff aren't necessarily reporting that these things actually happened - only that people believe they happened.