Trap Line, Carl Hiaasen
Trap Line, Carl Hiaasen
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Trap Line

Author: Carl Hiaasen, Bill Montalbano

Narrator: George K. Wilson

Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/27/2012


Synopsis

With its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conchs' historically low regard for the law, Key West is a smuggler's paradise. All that's needed are the captains to run the contraband. Breeze Albury is one of the best fishing captains on the Rock, and he's in no mood to become the Machine's delivery boy. So the Machine sets out to persuade him. It starts out by taking away Albury's livelihood. Then it robs him of his freedom. But when the Machine threatens Albury's son, the washed-out wharf rat turns into a raging, sea-going vigilante. In Trap Line, Hiaasen and Montalbano pit a handful of scruffy Conchs against an armada of drug lords, crooked cops, and homicidal marine lowlife. The result is a crime novel of dizzying velocity, filled with wrenching plot twists, grimily authentic characters, and enough local color for a hundred tropical shirts. It's the Key West the tourist brochures won't tell you about: a place as crooked as Al Capone's Chicago and as irredeemably violent as Wyatt Earp's Tombstone.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ricky

Good, fast read and it's impossible to tell where Montalbano turns the typewriter over to Carl Hiassen.......more

‘Trap Line' by Bill Montalbano and Carl Hiaasen is a good crime thriller. It was published in 1982, but I doubt the culture of the Florida Keys has changed very much from how it is presented in the novel. However, there is no satire in this story which experienced readers of books by Hiaasen have le......more

Goodreads review by Aaron

Hiaasen and his writing partner Montalbano bring readers to Key West, Florida, to experience how the fishing industry is struggling as they present the story of Breeze Albury. Breeze is actually a pretty good fishing boat captain, but like so many, he struggles to make ends meet. That is one reason......more

Goodreads review by K

My first encounter with Hiaasen was Razor Girl, which I found to be thoroughly entertaining and very well written. So, when I came across this earlier work, I had a preconceived notion that though it might not be as humorous, it ought to be well crafted. I was right. Trap Line is a fine book, albeit......more