Tricky Business - Dave Barry

Category: General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: 2002 Dave Barry Putnam Tricky Business

Written by Dave Barry
Read by Dick Hill
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Tricky Business By Dave Barry
Narrated by: Dick Hill
Release date: 09-11-08
Language: English
Format: Audiobook
Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Synopsis:
The Extravaganza of the Seas is a 5,000 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, says Carl Hiaasen, “one of the funniest writers alive”.