Tricky Business, Dave Barry
Tricky Business, Dave Barry
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Tricky Business

Author: Dave Barry

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017


Synopsis

The Extravaganza of the Seas is a five-thousand-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.

About Dave Barry

Dave Barry has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. His columns for the Miami Herald were syndicated worldwide, and he is the author of a number of bestselling books, including the recently published Peter and the Starcatchers with Ridley Pearson. He lives in Miami, where he drives very nervously.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan on November 24, 2022

Dumb and Dumber meets the Mafia in a story that fails miserably where humor is concerned. Having laughed out loud through ALL of "Insane City", reading this was drudgery. Underwhelming is the best description I can provide. Here's the recipe: a sleazy business man buys a Miami casino ship that's a fr......more

Goodreads review by Scott on June 03, 2023

Dave Barry’s 2002 novel “Tricky Business” is Carl Hiaasen as directed by Mel Brooks. How and why this was never made into a movie is beyond me. It has summer blockbuster comedy written all over it. I decided to cast this movie-that-was-never-made, so bear with me. (Also keep in mind that this movie w......more

Goodreads review by Patrick on January 02, 2009

It’s warped. It pokes outrageous fun at the stupidity in all of us—especially the ‘us’ who live in Florida (not me—those other people), and it uses adult language like I hear it used in the street all the time. It also has all the good stuff we like in a novel: murder, sex, drugs, violence, hijackin......more

Goodreads review by Clarence on July 01, 2020

ReedIII Quick Review: This book pokes fun at a wacky collection of characters. It is sweet, outrageous adult humor full of wit and satire. The crazy comical individual stories intertwine beautifully.......more

Goodreads review by Olga on July 23, 2015

I love Dave Barry, both as a hillarious columnist and as a fiction writer. This book starts out very funny, formulaic but funny. Ok, it is a familair formula (similar to another Florida humorist Carl Hiassen, whom I also follow and enjoy): bad rich developers, bad drug dealers, washed out pothead ba......more