Big Trouble
- Authors: Dave Barry
- Series:
- Type: Novel
- Genres: General Fiction
- Rank:Top 300 in Best Humorous American Literature on AmazonTop 1000 in Best Humorous Fiction on Amazon
- Rating: 4.3 based on 2,413 reviews
- Release Date: September 13, 1999
- Print length: 255 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
In Coconut Grove, Florida, Matt Arnold is preparing for a high school game of 'killer'. Armed only with a Squirtmaster 9000, Matt prepares to stake out the home of his intended victim, Jenny Herk. Only at the Herk household there is already trouble brewing...
For Jenny's jerk of a step-father, Arthur, has been embezzling money from his firm - and his employers are the type more likely to provide a concrete overcoat than a golden handshake. Outside the Herk residence two hit-men from New Jersey (and a very strange toad) are settling in for a real game of killer...
Praise for this book:
"A charming, witty and insightful storyteller..." - Kinky Friedman
"I laughed so hard I fell out of a chair..." - Stephen King
"The funniest book I've read in fifty years." - Elmore Leonard