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Big Trouble

Big Trouble

by Dave Barry

1999EmbezzlementNuclear weaponsMurderProblem familiesOpen Library Staff Picks
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About this book

A slapstick thriller set in Florida, featuring oddball characters. They include a homeless man who lives in a tree, a student with a squirt gun playing a game called Killer, a couple of real killers, and a terrorist with a nuclear bomb in a suitcase.

Themes & subjects

EmbezzlementNuclear weaponsMurderProblem familiesOpen Library Staff PicksTerrorists
First published 1999

Setting

FloridaCoconut Grove (Fla.)Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.)Coconut Grove

About the author

Dave Barry
Dave Barry

July 3, 1947

David McAlister "Dave" Barry is a Pulitzer Prize winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels. - Wikipedia

Author

Dave Barry

First published

1999

Pages

309

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

27

Languages

English, French, Chinese

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

ISBN

9783821830827

Where to buy

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