The Riptide Ultra-Glide
Brilliant local historian, bighearted psychopath and chipper tour guide Serge Storms takes a holidaying couple on the ride of a lifetime.
When newly unemployed Patrick and Barbara McDougall decide a break in Florida is just what they need to put life back on the right track, awful accommodations, a robbery, and a not-so-helpful police department make them rethink their decision to drown their troubles in paradise.
Luckily, charismatic Serge and his perpetually altered sidekick, Coleman, are on hand. But are the McDougalls safer with Serge – or should they take their chances on the mean streets? Will Coleman get tired of signing autographs? Can pelicans be used as murder weapons? And is time running out for our heroes?
In other words, welcome to Tim Dorsey's slice of America – where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned!
Book details
- Format
- Ebook
- ISBN
- 9781911440802
- Published
- 21 September 2017
- Duration
- Dimensions
- Genre
- Satire
- Imprint
- Farrago
Reviews
Praise for the Serge Storm Series
'Entertaining … funny … irreverent and loving at the same time … [Dorsey] leaves the reader gasping for breath'
'Hilarious. ... Serge Storms is, hands down, one of the most original and just-plain-captivating characters in modern crime fiction'
'Excellent … I almost exploded with laughter as I read Dorsey’s novel. It’s manic, hysterical, and puts Dorsey well up there with the cream of comic writers who seem to have made Florida the centre for satirizing America in the 21st century'
'A newer, nuttier individual is introduced on practically every page … It’s a sweet relief to discover that Dorsey can keep up with himself. Heaven knows nobody else can …'
'High satire with a lowbrow sensibility that inevitably invokes comparisons to Carl Hiaasen …. Dorsey is compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny …. He puts a funhouse mirror in front of the political process and those who feed off it …. For readers with a high threshold for prurience and violence, Dorsey’s books are definitely funny ha-ha' Boston Globe
'The characters in Tim Dorsey’s raucous novel would be shot on sight in any other state'
'Twisted hilarity … a compelling page-turner … Tim Dorsey is one sick bunny'
