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Tim Dorsey
Hurricane PunchWelcome
to another typical summer in Florida, the season of the storms.
Serge storms.
That lovable, under-undermedicated 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. Bodies have begun turning up at a disturbing rate,
even for Florida, and it looks like a brutal serial killer is on the
loose, which highly offends Serge's moral sensibilities and he 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—just released from a mental hospital where he'd been sent
for getting too deep inside Serge's head—is convinced there is no
second killer. Serge's personality is simply splitting from decades
of burning with incandescent zest for everything under the sun. 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,
the Party Parrot parties on, and questions mount: Who's stalking
Tampa Bay's most sensitive journalist? Did Tom Cruise go too easy on
Matt Lauer? Do multiple orgasms improve storm tracking? Why is the
feeding-tube guy so quiet? Will Molly ruin our antihero's dreams of
playing the electric guitar better than Clapton? . . . All of which
ultimately leads to the most pressing question on everyone's
new-millennium lips:
What would Serge do?
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