{"product_id":"big-trouble-9780425239476","title":"Big Trouble","description":"\u003cb\u003eDave Barry makes his fiction debut with a ferociously funny novel of love and mayhem in south Florida.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer. Matt's intended victim, Jenny Herk, sits down in front of the TV with her mom for what she hopes will be a peaceful evening for once. Jenny's alcoholic and secretly embezzling stepfather, Arthur, emerges from the maid's room, angry at being rebuffed. Henry and Leonard, two hit men from New Jersey, pull up to the Herks' house for a real game of Killer, Arthur's embezzlement apparently not having been quite so secret to his employers after all. And a homeless man named Puggy settles down for the night in a treehouse just inside the Herks' yard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a few minutes, a chain of events that will change the lives of each and every one of them will begin, and will leave some of them wiser, some of them deader, and some of them definitely looking for a new line of work. With a wicked wit, razor-sharp observations, rich characters, and a plot with more twists than the Inland Waterway, Dave Barry makes his debut a complete and utter triumph.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 1983 to 2004, \u003cb\u003e Dave Barry \u003c\/b\u003ewrote a weekly humor column for \u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, which in 1988 won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He is the author of more than thirty books, including such bestsellers as the nonfiction \u003ci\u003eLive Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer Is Much Faster)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYou Can Date Boys When You're Forty\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eI'll Mature When I'm Dead\u003c\/i\u003e; the novels \u003ci\u003eBig Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTricky Business\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eInsane City\u003c\/i\u003e; the very successful YA Peter Pan novels (with Ridley Pearson); and his Christmas story \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog\u003c\/i\u003e. Two of his books--\u003ci\u003eBig Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDave Barry's Guide to Guys\u003c\/i\u003e--have been turned into movies. For a while, his life was even a television series, \u003ci\u003eDave's World\u003c\/i\u003e, but then it was canceled. The series. Not the life. For many years, Dave was also a guitarist with the late, infamous, and strangely unlamented band the Rock Bottom Remainders.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662177964306,"sku":"9780425239476","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9294acf4-2207-4edf-a37f-8445ebad797c.jpg?v=1733515166","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/big-trouble-9780425239476","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}