| Tricky Business Contributor(s): Barry, Dave (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425192741 ISBN-13: 9780425192740 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: Barry follows his acclaimed debut novel "Big Trouble" with a book that "leads readers into a crazy complexity of money laundering, drug dealing, murder, sex, violence, hijacking, and undercover work" ("Library Journal"). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Sea Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 4.2" W x 6.74" (0.33 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Florida |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |