Florida roadkill Book

Acid humor and a lot of deaths!


THE PROTAGONIST, NOT THE HERO

This is the first novel in the Serge Storms book series, that while there were other following novels presenting prequel events to this very book, it was here where the literary series born in the matters of publication.

Serge Storms is a criminal, with an acid humor sense, and he's a criminal in the whole extension of the meaning of that, so he's not afraid of killing ANYBODY who is in his way to get what he wants.

So, it's quite understandable that many reader would have some troubles to like Serge, but…

…the other chracters are rotten fruits of the same kind of tree, so…

…It's criminals vs criminals vs criminals.

Therefore, Serge Storms is one of the reasons that you can't call the main character in a novel and/or book series as "the hero(ine)" but it's better to be called as "the protagonist", which is quite curious that if the protagonist has questionable moral values, then his/her "antagonist", which is a term commonly associated with evil acts, he/she can be well someone with "good principles", but just against the acts of the protagonist.

However, even that can't be much applied here, since you'll have a hard time trying to find a character of good conscience here.

And as in any standard George RR Martin's book, you'll meet A LOT of deaths here, so many, that even Tim Dorsey, the writer, had to set some of the following books as prequels, since he killed off too much characters that later he realized that he'd needed them to other stories.


GET THE BRIEFCASE!!!

It's the good ol' 1997, we are in Florida, and the Marlins have won the World Series.

Everything is good, but good ol' Serge has a problem.

He wants a briefcase with A LOT of money (who wouldn't?) but that money is the result of mischief management of an insurance policy (obviously, it's not something that worries at all to Serge), however finding the briefcase isn't as easy as he'd thought at first, so he needs to ally in reluctant way to Sharon Rhodes, a stone-cold exotic dancer, and "Coleman" Bunsen, a drug addict that it's quite stupid (well he takes drugs, so I think that it's quite obvious that he's dumb)…

…but life has an acid humor sense too, and life isn't hesitate to play a joke on this unlikely trio on their quest for the briefcase.

You'll meet a whole bunch of other characters in the middle of this wacky search for the briefcase, since the more people, more the cannon fodder!

The narrative style is many times kinda confusing in the sense that you have some difficulties to notice the change of scenario between characters' groups, but...

...still is quite a dark humorous journey to read.