How does Tim Dorsey keep coming up with such wide-ranging, varied and imaginative ways of offing miscreants who so richly deserve their fates? You can't blame it all on following the Florida media, though admittedly he'll never run out of source material... He's done it again with his latest Serge A. Storms novel Tiger Shrimp Tango (#372).
This time Serge is working with his former nemesis Mahoney as an unofficial Private Investigator tracing down the perpetrators of a plethora of scams against Floridians: insurance fraud, bogus charity fund-raising, the DEA agent threatening a humiliating public arrest if the victim doesn't immediately pay up. You get the picture; Serge's targets are the usual scumbags no one but their profiteer puppet master will miss.
His sidekick Coleman is along for the ride as the pair patrol from the Republican National Convention in Tampa to Worth Avenue in Palm Beach and the glittering resorts lining Miami Beach. Coleman is psyched that he actually understands and explains the science behind the method to one of their involuntary guests. He also confounds Serge when he turns out to be a big hit with the Democrats. Haven't figured out yet whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. Hmm.
If you like interesting and arcane Florida fun facts mixed in with the mayhem that Serge and Coleman invariably invoke you'll eat up Tiger Shrimp Tango. It might make you think twice about frequenting the sidewalk cafes along Worth Avenue, though!
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