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  • Tricky Business

  • By: Dave Barry
  • Narrated by: Dick Hill
  • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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Tricky Business

By: Dave Barry
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Summary

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".
©2003 Dave Barry (P)2004 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Literature & Fiction Mystery Sea Adventures Business Fiction
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Critic reviews

"Belying self-deprecating disclaimers about his talent for fiction, Barry demonstrates that he can draw some captivating characters and keep a reader's attention in spite of-or perhaps because of-slapstick antics and a fascination with scatology." ( Publishers Weekly

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Tour de Force

This is an amusing story, and a respectable member of the Florida Keys comic caper family.

I don't know anything about Dave Barry, but from the audio book listings it seems like he has an established reputation as a comedian.

What makes this book soooo special is the narration by Dick Hill. He owned it. Excellent and funny character voices. Totally recommending this to you.

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