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Tricky Business
Author: Dave Barry

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Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780425192740 - ISBN-10: 0425192741
Publication Date: 10/7/2003
Pages: 287


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio CD

Book Description:
The Extravaganza of the Seas is a five-thousand-ton cash cow, a top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from the Florida coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can find more money. In the middle of a tropical storm one night, these characters are among the passengers it carries: Fay Benton, a single mom and cocktail waitress desperate for something to go right for once; Johnny and the Contusions, a ship's band with so little talent they are . . . well, the ship's band; Arnold and Phil, two refugees from the Beaux Arts Senior Center; Lou Tarant, a wide, bald man who has killed nine people, though none recently; and an assortment of uglies whose job it is to facilitate the ship's true business, which is money-laundering or drug-smuggling or . . . something.

What happens to them all in the midst of the fiercest storm in years, the unpredictable ways in which this trip will change their lives and send them ricocheting off each other like a giant game of pinball, is the story of this astonishing, wickedly satisfying, all-too-human novel by "one of the funniest writers alive" (Carl Hiaasen).

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Please Rate these Book Reviews

Carl G. wrote on 8/11/2008...


A quick, entertaining, and funny read. Dave Barry has Elmore Leonard's skill at plotting and adds Barry's comedic look at the world and it's human inhabitants.

Great "beach" or "vacation" read.

Better even than his initial effort, Big Trouble.

Read both.

John F. wrote on 4/6/2007...


This is just a riotously funny book, as you'd expect from my all-time favorite humor writer.

Joan W. (media-junkie) wrote on 3/29/2007...


A lighthearted comedy about murder, drugs, and gambling. Mature themes - not for children.

Deana G. wrote on 12/9/2006...


Silly fun.

Muffie G. wrote on 11/8/2006...


Dave Barry humorous fiction in the vein of Carl Hiaasen in humor.

Jane K. (JDay) wrote on 7/28/2006...


Very funny stuff! And a complex, crazy completely entertaining story of money laundering, drug dealing, murder, and sex - with a cast of characters who chill you to the bone and/or have you cheering for them all the way...all on the high seas in Florida.

Dee H. (Avon) wrote on 7/15/2006...


Great Book

Diane C. (DEC) wrote on 6/7/2006...


Offbeat, irreverent, a very fun read.

Melissa G. (tish918) wrote on 5/21/2006...


murderous comedy

Sarah S. (Delos) wrote on 2/12/2006...


I haven't read this all the way through, but this guy... I mean, come on...is one of the funniest writers in American history. From what I've read, it sounds similar to a Hiassen novel. Wackier, of course.


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