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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780380732340
ISBN number: 0380732343
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: June 01, 2001
Publishing house: HarperTorch
Release Date: May 29, 2001
Sale Popularity Level: 43629
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There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover cops. And just down the row, local historian and spree killer Serge A. Storms -- who has stopped keeping up with his meds -- is still looking for a briefcase stuffed with five million dollars...and is now capable of wreaking more havoc than hurricane Rolando-berto, the big wind gathering force offshore, just waiting for the opportunity to blow everything straight to hell.
Pack up your bags and head south to sunny Florida. Leave your rational mind at home and come well armed. There's a room with your number on it at the Hammerhead Ranch Motel.
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Penzler Pick, August 2000: Is it Florida, or is it the mystery writers who set their stories there? There seems to be a tradition of Florida noir that is as loony as that name implies. Tim Dorsey is the newest writer from the Sunshine State whose stories are inhabited by a cast of characters who, in any other state, would probably be behind bars. In Dorsey's world, not only are they roaming free, they are also wreaking havoc with impunity up and down the peninsula.
In his very first book, Florida Roadkill, Dorsey introduced us to several characters who are still at large as his second story begins. Serge A. Storms is a spree killer and Florida history buff, still looking for the five million dollars that's stashed in the trunk of a Chrysler--unbeknownst to the driver--somewhere in the state. Johnny Vegas is a playboy who, because catastrophic events always seem to get in the way, has yet to lose his virginity. Also along for the zany ride is 90-year-old Mrs. Edna Ploomfield, who blows away a man delivering her flowers and chocolates; a DJ who changed his name legally to Boris the Hateful Piece of BLEEP so that he would not be BLEEPED on the air every time he used the name; and Safety Officer Chester 'Porkchop' Dole who watches the monitors on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Along with a dancing Chihuahua who forecasts the weather, the Diaz Boys, Harvey Fiddlebottom, undercover cops, and a variety of oddballs, they will congregate in or around the seediest place never to have been shut down, the Hammerhead Ranch Motel on the Gulf of Mexico. There, they will play out their lunacy as Hurricane Rolando-berto bears down on them. This is a wonderful summertime read, relentlessly funny and impossible to put down. --Otto Penzler
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Out of breath, head still spinning from the wildly crazy "Florida Roadkill," along comes this sequel that might actually surpass it's predecessor in laughs and good ol' Florida fun! I was a reluctant Dorsey fan at first, nearly giving up on the previous novel more than once. Suddenly without warning, I am a Serge A. Storms fan and find myself rooting for the bad guys, who aren't so bad after all. Picking up immediately from the fiery conclusion of "Florida Roadkill," Serge is still after the five million dollar briefcase. Along the way he picks up a new sidekick to replace the now decesed Coleman. Lenny Lippowicz; who drives around in a Pink Cadillac with a banner touting himself as the Don Johnson Experience, is the perfect replacement to the drug addled, simple minded Coleman.
"You're right about Zeppelin's fourth album, it rocks."
Serge launched into air guitar...Lenny growled with a Kmart Robert Plant, but it was serviceable.
"Hey, hey, mama said the way you move - gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove."
Serge made guitar sounds with his mouth and Zargoza pounded on the wheel.
"...been so long since I found out, what people mean by dinin' out."
Serge resumed the scorching guitar part again, but Zargoza had a funny look on his face.
"Whoa! Whoa! Stop it! Hold the fu**in' train!..."Did you say 'what people mean by dinin' out?"
"Yeah."
"...It's down and out you boob! Jimmy Page is choppin' the most savage guitar licks ever laid down and you think Robet Plant is singing about not getting out to White Castle enough?"
"I didn't give it much thought," said Lenny. "I figured they were very busy in the recording studio and ate a lot of takeout...now i'm hungry."
They turned on to U.S. 19, fast-food row and pulled in the drive-through lane at the new fried-chicken skin joint.
"This is the best place," Lenny said. "They get rid of all the damn meat so you just get the skin. That's all we've ever wanted. That's all we've ever asked for."
We also meet a whole new bunch of zany's including the brave crew of aviation Hurricane hunter's ("We're all gonna die," screams Banana's Foster in the cockpit,) Art Tweed, an Alabama resident, desperate and on the verge of death, Jethro Maddox, the philosophical Hemingway look-alike, Paul, the passive-agressive private eye, and City & Country, two girls on the run from a secret past. All of them wind up as temporary residents in the not so famous Hammerhead Ranch Motel. The climactic hurricane scene is not to be missed, and is almost reminiscent (I mean that loosely) of the great Bogart epic "Key Largo." If Dorsey's Florida leaves you unseasonably cold, I would pass, but if "Florida Roadkill" left you panting for more, this is a must-read.
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Mr. Dorsey's books are quite addictive. This is the second installment in the Florida adventures of loveable, psychotic-killer Serge A. Storms. I never thought I'd see the day when I'd combine the words 'loveable' and 'psychotic-killer' to describe the protagonist of a story. It is a tribute to Mr. Dorsey's talents that he is able to pull it off. The book is over-the-top humour which resembles the work of Carl Hiaasen, but has more of a creative twist when it comes to killing off characters. If your are going to give Mr. Dorsey's novels a shot, it would be best to start with the funny, but savage debut 'Florida Roadkill.' A fun, fast-paced, easy read.
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Number 2 in the Serge Storms story line - is Tim Dorsey going to have somebody explode!!!! Have to read book 3!!! to SEE!!! Just never know!!!
Great copy - just like new!! That's what we all look for; and it was delivered!! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This is not Dorsey's best work. He's introduced too many characters and we only know a few facts about each. The story darts around like the ball in a pinball machine. If you are stuck in an airport and someone leaves this book in the lounge, go ahead and pick it up. Otherwise, go pay full price for a Carl Hiassen novel in the bookstore.
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Hammerhead ranch motel by Tim Dorsey is yet another romp through Florida with Serge and Lenny. Serge, the hero of these sagas is his usual witty, zany, loveable self, the serial killer with both creativity and sensitivity who is OCD about almost everything. Lenny is his side kick, who is drunk, stoned, trying to make a connection or down on his hands and knees in the backseat, raking the carpeting for any stray bits of lost dope. The story is packed with action and old movies, dead bodies, parties, a hurricane and Serge showing off his skill in marine taxidermy. Country and City show up for the partying as usual and the infamous Diaz boys are lurking around trying to survive their own stupidity. Johnny Vegas is still engaged in his great quest and Serge is still looking for the car carrying the case with the five million dollars that he lost a couple of books ago.
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