

Basket Case
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Narrator: George Newbern
Unabridged: 10 hr 10 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 04/30/2013
Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled
Synopsis
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 re-launch 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.