Many thanks to Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín (MAGE) for bringing me this signed copy (straight from the Miami Book Fair and just in time for the end of the semester’s “reading-for-pleasure” break). Classified as Children’s Middle Grade Action & Adventure or Children’s Middle Grade Mystery, this book is bleeping fun to read. [Don’t you worry… Next on my list? MAGE’s Culture, Nature, and the Other in Caribbean Literature (Cambria Press, 2023).]
Description: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas—just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Welcome to another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen’s Florida!
Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living.
So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don’t want Wrecker to call for help—in fact, they’ll pay him to forget he ever saw them.
Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West—at the marina, in the cemetery, even right outside his own door. And now they want more than his silence—they want a lookout.
He’ll have to dive deep into their shady dealings to figure out a way to escape this tangled net. . .
CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the best sellers Bad Monkey, Lucky You, Nature Girl, Razor Girl, Sick Puppy, Skinny Dip, and Star Island, as well as six best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp, Skink, and Squirm. His most recent work of nonfiction is Assume the Worst, a collaboration with the artist Roz Chast.
For more information on the author, visit carlhiaasen.com or prhspeakers.com.
Many thanks to Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín (MAGE) for bringing me this signed copy (straight from the Miami Book Fair and just in time for the end of the semester’s “reading-for-pleasure” break). Classified as Children’s Middle Grade Action & Adventure or Children’s Middle Grade Mystery, this book is bleeping fun to read. [Don’t you worry…
