Audio Book Description:
Once a hotshot investigative reporter,Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries fora South Floridadaily,"plotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yokingmy byline to some famous stiff." Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba "accident," mightbe the stiff of Jack`s dreams-if only hecan figure out what happened. Standing in the way are his ambitious young editor, who hasn`t yet firedanyone but plans to "break her cherry" on Jack; the rock star`s pop-singer widow, who`s using the occasion of her husband`s death to re-launch her owncareer; and the soulless, profit-hungry owner of the newspaper,whom Jack once publicly humiliated at a stockholder`s meeting. With clues from the dead rocksinger`smusic, Jack ultimately unravels Jimmy Stoma`s strangefate-in a hilariously hard-won triumph for muckrakingjournalism, and for the death-obsessed obituary writer himself. "Always be halfway prepared" is Jack Tagger`s motto-and it`s more thanenough to guarantee a wickedly funny, brilliantly entertaining novel from Carl Hiassen.
