Torpedo Juice

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If you like your humour dark and twisty, then you'll love Tim Dorsey's outrageous Serge Storms series of crime novels. The drinks are on local historian/spree killer Serge Storms, who's decided it's high time he got married. So he's motoring down to the Florida Keys the ultimate end of the line in search of Ms Right . . . And finding his doped-up basket case bud Coleman along the way. But for Serge, "getting hitched" doesn't necessarily mean "settling down" not when South Florida is crawling with slimeballs, swindlers, unrepentant jerks, and annoying bystanders whose ranks need some serious thinning. In other words, welcome to Tim Dorsey's slice of America where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned! AUTHOR: Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999 and is the author of ten previous novels: Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, Orange Crush, Triggerfish Twist, The Stingray Shuffle, Cadillac Beach, Torpedo Juice, The Big Bamboo, Hurricane Punch, and Atomic Lobster. He lives in Tampa, Florida.

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Praise for theSerge StormSeries

'Hilarious... Serge Storms is, hands down,one of the most original and just-plain-captivating charactersin modern crime fiction'Booklist

'The characters in Tim Dorseys raucous novel would be shot on sight in any other state'New York Times Book Review

'A good writer with plenty to say To Dorseys eye, the Florida [that] residents love is awash in racism, smut, dope, corruption, and casual murderous violence. You can tell he loves it still'Cleveland Plain Dealer

'In Serge Storms, the convivial, schizoid torturer with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Florida, Dorsey has created a truly lovable loon'Birmingham Post

'Twisted hilarity a compelling page-turner Tim Dorsey is one sick bunny'Belfast News Letter

'Entertaining funny irreverent and loving at the same time [Dorsey]leaves the reader gasping for breath'Washington Post Book World

'Excellent I almost exploded with laughteras I read Dorseys novel. Its manic, hysterical, and puts Dorsey well up there with the cream of comic writers who seem to have made Florida the centre for satirizing America in the 21st century'Independent

Author Bio

Tim Dorsey was born in Indiana, moved to Florida at the age of one, and grew up in a small town about an hour north of Miami called Riviera Beach. He worked as a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, after which he left to write full time.

He lives in Tampa with his family.