Basket Case
Carl Hiaasen
Price  399.00
A Sunday Times bestseller, Basket Case is an entertaining delight from first page to last and spells out a hilariously hard-won triumph for muckraking journalism.
Jack Tagger is a frustrated journalist. His outspoken views have relegated him to the obituary page, with his byline never again to disgrace the front page. But Jack has stumbled across a whale of a story that might just resurrect his career . . . James Stomarti, infamous frontman of rock band Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, has died in a diving accident and Jack harbours suspicions that the glamorous pop starlet widow may have had a vested interest in her husband's untimely death. It all smells a little too fishy. Aided and abetted by his rather sexy (if unnervingly ambitious) young editor, Emma, Jack sets out to in pursuit of the truth - and a nice juicy story. But of course nothing is ever straightforward and with murderous goons on his tail, brutal internal politics at the paper and a paranoia about death, Jack is struggling to keep his head above water. Was Jimmy Stomarti murdered? Is someone trying to kill off the Slut Puppies one by one? And what significance can a dead lizard named Colonel Tom possibly have? This is one book you'll kill to get your hands on.
ISBN 9780330490184Category FictionSubcategory Humour
Publisher Pan Macmillan UKImprint PanPublished 07/02/2003
Format 178 x 111Binding PaperbackPage extent 336
 
 
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