Big Trouble

Name: Big Trouble
Rating: 4.3 (2413 reviews)
Author: Dave Barry

Authors: Dave Barry
Series:
Type: Novel
Genres: General Fiction
Rank:
Top 300 in Best Humorous American Literature on Amazon
Top 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)

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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

Accolades

Edgar Award for Best First Novel 2000 (nominee)

Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery Novel 2000 (nominee)

About the author

Dave Barry

David "Dave" Barry is a bestselling American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist who wrote a nationally syndicated column for the The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written ...