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    Big Trouble
    Big Trouble
    Big Trouble
    Audiobook7 hours

    Big Trouble

    Written by Dave Barry

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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    About this audiobook

    In his career, Dave Barry has done just about everything—written bestselling nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize, seen his life turned into a television series. And now, at last, he has joined the long list of literary figures from Jane Austen to Tolstoy who have made the transition from humor columnist to novelist—and done it with a style and inventiveness that establishes that, yes, he is very good at that, too.

    In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills his Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt's intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what she hopes will be a peaceful evening—for once. Jenny's alcoholic and secretly embezzling stepfather, Arthur, emerges from the maid's room, angry at being rebuffed—again. Henry and Leonard, two hit men from New Jersey, pull up to the Herks' house for a real game of Killer—Arthur's embezzlement apparently not having been quite so secret to his employers after all. And a homeless man named Puggy settles down for the night in a treehouse just inside the Herks' yard.

    In a few minutes, a chain of events that will change the lives of each and every one of them will begin, and will leave some of them wiser, some of them deader, and some of them definitely looking for a new line of work. With a wicked wit, razor-sharp observations, rich characters, and a plot with more twists than the Inland Waterway, Dave Barry makes his debut a complete and utter triumph.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 17, 2008
    ISBN9781423338406
    Big Trouble
    Author

    Dave Barry

    Dave Barry is the author of more bestsellers than you can count on two hands, including Lessons from Lucy, Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys, Dave Barry Turns Forty, and Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up. A wildly popular syndicated columnist best known for his booger jokes, Barry won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He lives in Miami.

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    • 5/5
      Seriously funny book (the movie is excellent too). Mr. Barry needs to write more fiction. This story has a similar feel to Elmore Leonard's Get Shorty. If you liked that one, you will like this one.
    • 1/5
      Audiobook - did not like the reader’s voice, totally annoying. Also, expected the book to be funny and entertaining yet it fell short, was counting the minutes until it was over.