- Embezzlement, Nuclear weapons, Murder, Problem families
A slapstick thriller set in Florida, featuring oddball characters. They include a homeless man who lives in a tree, a student with a squirt gun playing a game called Killer, a couple of real killers, and a terrorist with a nuclear bomb in a suitcase.
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About the book
- Author
- Dave Barry
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 307
- Publisher
- Piatkus Books, Berkley, Yi lin chu ban she
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- Chinese, French, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9782744150340
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David McAlister "Dave" Barry is a Pulitzer Prize winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels. - Wikipedia
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