Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen
Fellow Author Gives Thumbs Up
Take one dead rock & roll star, his Courtney Love-type widow, the
mysterious deaths of his former bandmates, and the lost tracks of a
comeback album. Stir in Jack Tagger, a middle-aged investigative
reporter obsessed with death since his banishment to the obit desk; a
fetching young editor with a yen for our hero; and a boss looking for a
reason to fire him. Put them in the hands of a master like Carl Hiaasen,
who adds his trademark flourishes (who else would use a frozen lizard as
a weapon?) to a creaky plot like this one, and the result is a winner .
Florida is full of caper writers with journalistic credentials, and plenty of
them have a deft hand with quirky characters, but no one in the genre is
better than Hiaasen. --Jane Adams
[...] I give this a thumbs up for outrageous comedy at its best. I have been
a Carl Hiaasen fan for years and have loved every one of his books that I
have read.
What I loved about this book, as is the case with all of his, is that his
characters are so engaging. The plot twists and turns are unexpected and
the situations keep getting more and more outrageous. It is dark, satirical,
and delicious. I dont know how he does it. The flavor of all of his books is
the same. Yet this, just like the rest, was as refreshing as the first book I
read by him.
Davis Aujourdhui, author of The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga
Fortitude
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