Hurricane Punch
Written by Tim Dorsey
Narrated by Oliver Wyman
4/5
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About this audiobook
Welcome to another typical summer in Florida, the season of the storms. Serge Storms.
That loveable, under-under-medicated dispenser of truth, justice, and trivia is back with a vengeance. And not a weirdness-laced moment too soon.
His cherished home state is about to take a beating, and from far more than the way-too-routine conga line of hurricanes bearing down on the peninsula. Corpses have begun turning up at a disturbing rate, even for Florida, and it looks like a brutal serial killer is on the loose. Serge vows to stop at nothing in his juggernaut to make All Things Right...except if he gets bored or distracted by a cool souvenir or...or a...whatever.
But his path won't be obstacle free.
Agent Mahoney has picked up the scent. The obsessive criminal profiler is convinced there is no second killer. Then there's Coleman, whose triathlete approach to the sport of polyabuse binging just might derail the mission more than the entire police community put together. The pace picks up. Winds howl, TV reporters fly around the beach, and questions mount: Who's stalking Tampa Bay's most sensitive journalist? Do multiple orgasms improve storm tracking? Why is the feeding-tube guy so quiet? All of which ultimately leads to the most pressing question on everyone's new-millennium lips: What would Serge do?
Performed by Oliver Wyman
Tim Dorsey
Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is the author of twenty-five other novels: Mermaid Confidential, Tropic of Stupid, Naked Came the Florida Man, No Sunscreen for the Dead, Pope of Palm Beach, Clownfish Blues, Coconut Cowboy, Shark Skin Suite, Tiger Shrimp Tango, The Riptide Ultra-Glide, When Elves Attack, Pineapple Grenade, Electric Barracuda, Gator A-Go-Go, Nuclear Jellyfish, Atomic Lobster, Hurricane Punch, The Big Bamboo, Torpedo Juice, Cadillac Beach, The Stingray Shuffle, Triggerfish Twist, Orange Crush, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, and Florida Roadkill. He lives in Florida.
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Reviews for Hurricane Punch
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Serge and his semi-nemesis, Agent Mahoney, play a cat and mouse game through the press in between and during several hurricanes that pass through Florida without much of a breather. Mahoney, fresh out of psychological care resulting from his last stint of trying to catch Serge, is manipulating a rookie crime reporter's stories to entice Serge into the open.Tim Dorsey skewers the media conglomerates responsible for the diminishment of print news, while giving Serge ever more inventive ways of killing people, which he manages to do during his search for a religion that will have him (a scene in a confessional - also involving Serge's sidekick Coleman - is a highlight).One of Dorsey's more satisfying Serge novels due to the coherence and intertwining of the media and hurricane themes - and the usual sharp wicked humor.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Serge and Coleman are traveling across Florida, following hurricanes and sheltering in historic sights, leaving a trail of mayhem and bodies.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Perverse dark humor, creative use of back timing, quirky characters, lots of fun
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What can I say? Tim Dorsey is great, and this is one of his best yet. Even more of a surprise ending then usual. And Molly's back.
Recommended for Tim Dorsey fans, Carl Hiassen Fans, and fans of surreal fiction. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5great example of darkly funny Florida outrageous comedy; Serge is always funny
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is awesome! I got this as a recommendation because I was reading Kurt Vonnegut. I absolutely love Tim Dorsey now. After i got the first recommendation i ran out and bought 4 of his books. After I finished the first one I went and bought 3 more! Tim Dorsey is hilarious!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is OK. I listened to "Torpedo Juice" and nearly died laughing. I think a large part of the humor of the series is watching normal people try to deal with Serge. (On the other hand, I was more than halfway through TJ when I realized that Serge is a serial killer, so I brought a very different point of view to every other book in the series.) There were a few scenes with Serge simply going off in odd directions that were flat-out hillarious. I get the impression, though, that the dysfunctional normality of Florida that drove Dorsey to write his first books is wearing a bit thin on him.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book was different from Tim Dorsey's other Serge novels; I don't want to reveal too much and spoil it for anyone! I was a bit disappointed in the middle, but the ending turned things around for me and confirmed my faith in Dorsey's humor, if not made me more of a fan. I can't wait for the next installment of Serge's Floridian adventures!