EBOOK Basket Case

Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, &';plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.&' Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba &';accident,&' might be the stiff of Jack&'s dreamsif only he can figure out what happened. Standing in the way are (among others) his ambitious young editor, who hasn&'t yet fired anyone but plans to &';break her cherry&' on Jack; the rock star&'s pop-singer widow, who&'s using the occasion of her husband&' s death to re-launch her own career; and the soulless, profit-hungry owner of the newspaper, whom Jack once publicly humiliated at a stockholders&' meeting. With clues from the dead rock singer&'s music, Jack ultimately unravels Jimmy Stoma&'s strange fatein a hilariously hard-won triumph for muckraking journalism, and for the death-obsessed obituary writer himself. &';Always be halfway prepared&' is Jack Tagger&'s mottoand it&'s more than enough to guarantee a wickedly funny, brilliantly entertaining novel from Carl Hiaasen.  BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen&'sBad Monkey.