I always did like Rita best of all the Dolly Birds - punkish, dyslexic make-up artist deeply unimpressed by JJ and his various ways. in the grand scheme of things she meets him not long after the 'plane crash' which killed his wife and left him a mess, so he's not at his best. Still, though, this voyage some things don't sit quite right, such as Rita's apparent homophobia (it's probably just her resentment at JJ being expressed through the casual contemporary homophobic language because of the sort of hilarious comic misunderstanding that were the primary utility of homosexuality in various forms of fiction at the time) and an incredibly cringey bit involving blackface and imitated pidgin dialect. Aside from that, there's a twisty complicated thriller involving murder and drug smuggling and assorted tropical islands, and it's all good fun and there's a brilliantly nasty and tense bit where they get hijacked on the edge of a tropical storm that's about to turn into a hurricane that's worth getting through the now-cringey bits.