I absolutely love 'The Dice Man', so I was enormously excited about this before I read it, which made me well aware that I might be rising for a fall, but instead I was happily gratified.
The Dice Man is complete in itself, even with the open ending, so in a way, can't be tarnished by embellishment, so the style of 'The Search for the Dice Man' fits nicely into the thread as a companion; not a co-dependant.
It is the story of Luke's son, a wealthy stock market wizz kid, becoming disillusioned with his banal, but priviledged existence, the way his father did, becoming restless and reckless and finally burning bridges and being forced into navigating a larger, fuller world of self-awareness, which takes on the form of trying to find his infamous father: 'The Dice Man'.
Full of humour and irreverance, it is a touching and fun book that I've just inspired myself to read again. After 'The Dice Man', of course.