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Basket Case

Written by: Carl Hiaasen
Narrated by: George Newbern
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Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff". Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba "accident", might be the stiff of Jack’s dreams - if only he can figure out what happened.

Standing in the way are (among others) his ambitious young editor, who hasn’t yet fired anyone but plans to "break her cherry" on Jack; the rock star’s pop-singer widow, who’s using the occasion of her husband’s death to relaunch her own career; and the soulless, profit-hungry owner of the newspaper, whom Jack once publicly humiliated at a stockholders’ meeting.

With clues from the dead rock singer’s music, Jack ultimately unravels Jimmy Stoma’s strange fate - in a hilariously hard-won triumph for muckraking journalism, and for the death-obsessed obituary writer himself.

"Always be halfway prepared" is Jack Tagger’s motto - and it’s more than enough to guarantee a wickedly funny, brilliantly entertaining novel from Carl Hiaasen.
©2002 Carl Hiaasen; 2013 Random House Audio
Hard-Boiled Suspense Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction
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  • 2021-04-14

Takes a while!

I own several Carl Hiaasen books in print, digital and now audible formats. Usually the characters are a bit quirky and I quickly engage with the lead character and in the story line. I found the lead character here not so likeable and actually annoying. Maybe that was the intent. Here I jumped ahead to keep the story moving. Usually in his other books there are many laugh out loud moments. Here, not so much. The story especially at the end seemed unlikely, especially the acceptance of the chances taken, even for this kind of story and author.

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