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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375700692
ISBN-139780375700699
eBay Product ID (ePID)1100318
Product Key Features
Book TitleTrap Line
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, General, Humorous / General
Publication Year1998
GenreFiction
AuthorCarl Hiaasen, Bill Montalbano
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight10 oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-232816
Dewey Edition21
Dewey DecimalFIC
SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Bad Monkey and Razor Girl and Bill Montalbano comes this compelling thriller set in Key West on the southern most end of America. With its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conchs' historically low regard for the law, Key West is a smuggler's paradise. All that's needed are the captains to run the contraband. Breeze Albury is one of the best fishing captains on the Rock, and he's in no mood to become the Machine's delivery boy. So the Machine sets out to persuade him. It starts out by taking away Albury's livelihood. Then it robs him of his freedom. But when the Machine threatens Albury's son, the washed-out wharf rat turns into a raging, sea-going vigilante. In Trap Line , Hiaasen and Montalbano pit a handful of scruffy Conchs against an armada of drug lords, crooked cops, and homicidal marine lowlife. The result is a crime novel of dizzying velocity, filled with wrenching plot twists, grimily authentic characters, and enough local color for a hundred tropical shirts. It's the Key West the tourist brochures won't tell you about: a place as crooked as Al Capone's Chicago and as irredeemably violent as Wyatt Earp's Tombstone.
Thin book and as one of Hiaasen's first works. Later books much more engrossing
If you read Hiaasen's many later novels you can see how his stories have developed over time and more fun to read. Trap Line was enjoyable but it was a thin book compared to his later works of 300+ pages.