Carl Hiaasen: Wrecker (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
Carl Hiassen's Florida is its own wild and unhinged setting that keeps coming back for more. In Wrecker, Hiassen is back at it with a hilarious romp through the Sunshine State as a young descendant of a shipwreck salvager finds himself living up to his family's destiny.

Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas -- just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida, now in paperback!

Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living.
So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help -- in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them.

Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West -- at the marina, in the cemetery, even right outside his own door. And now they want more than his silence -- they want a lookout.

He'll have to dive deep into their shady dealings to figure out a way to escape this tangled net....

Carl Hiaasen: Wrecker. Yearling Books, ISBN: 9780593376324 (August, 2024), 352 p., $9.99.

Carl Hiaasen: Wrecker (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
Carl Hiassen's Florida is its own wild and unhinged setting that keeps coming back for more. In Wrecker, Hiassen is back at it with a hilarious romp through the Sunshine State as a young descendant of a shipwreck salvager finds himself living up to his family's destiny.

Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas -- just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida, now in paperback!

Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living.
So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help -- in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them.

Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West -- at the marina, in the cemetery, even right outside his own door. And now they want more than his silence -- they want a lookout.

He'll have to dive deep into their shady dealings to figure out a way to escape this tangled net....

Carl Hiaasen: Wrecker. Knopf Books for Young Readers, ISBN: 9780593376287 (September, 2023), 323 p., $18.99, eBook $9.99.