Excellent!

Reserved for my very first bookray!

From the Publisher

Once a hotshot investigative reporter, middle-aged Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff." Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, might be the stiff of Jack's dreams: dead in a diving "accident" that gives off a fishy smell -- if only Jack can figure out what happened.

It won't be easy, with untimely interference from (among others) his ambitious young editor, who hasn't yet fired anyone but plans to "break her cherry" on Jack; the rock star's pop-singer widow, Cleo Rio, who's hiding something that requires a brutish bodyguard to protect (though he's no match for Jack's frozen lizard); and the soulless, profit-hungry owner of the newspaper, whom Jack once publicly humiliated at a stockholder's meeting.

With clues from the dead rock singer's own music, Jack ultimately unravels Jimmy's strange fate -- a hilariously hard-won triumph for the greater good of muckraking journalism, and for death-obsessed Jack himself.

"Always be prepared" is Jack's motto -- and it's more than enough to guarantee a wickedly funny, brilliantly entertaining Carl Hiaasen novel.

RELEASE NOTES:

I'm mailing this off to sweetybeans, the first participant in the book ray I've started.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/4221977

just recfeived in the mail today. i have one book i am reading right now in front of this one. will get to in the next few days. thanksfor the wonderful postcards - i DO love getting them :)

looking forward to another hiaasen book

finished three days ago and forgot to post. i have to day i enjoyed this one, but not as much as other hiaasen books. still it was a quick read and his dry humor is always entertaining. sent out today to the next person

Thanks! I received this book and will start reading it soon!

Thanks for sharing this book with me! I "finally" finished it! It was an interesting mystery. I will be shipping it to nuttyreader!

Thanks for the chance to read this one. Double thanks tostle for the 4 childrens books that came with it.

Enjoyed it. thanks for sharing.

RELEASE NOTES:

Sent to caridad. Enjoy!

Thanks, nuttyreader (you are a patient person)!

I love Carl Hiassen! Living here in Florida, the stuff he comes up with to write his books is so real. I love reading his Sunday columns in the Miami Herald twice a month satirizing all of the stupity and corruption here. I think he justs takes actual Florida news, and creates a story around it. I read this in a day. Thank you, emtmeghan! Now to find the next victim....(to be continued)...

I had no sucess with this book in the doctor's office (it just moved around from table to table after my 3rd visit), so I went on cliffs and sent it as a RABCK to Jerrilynn. I hope you enjoy it!

What a surprise! I love Carl Hiaasen. Am looking forward to reading this one. Thank you Caridad! :-)