- Paperback: 368 pages
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786889098
- ISBN-13: 978-0786889099
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,404,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Businessman Murray Zemelman is on the lookaout for a new life away from Prozac and the New Jersey snow. Sunny Florida offers a second chance with his first wife and a scenond career running the first legal casino in the local Native American reservation. Murray reckons he might have the streets smart enough to make a fortune by turning the tables on the local white mafia. But, the aligators aren't the only man-eaters on the island reservation, and the native Mafioso is also on the look out for an easy lunch.
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Laurence Shames was born in New Jersey and started out as a crime reporter. He then moved to the vibrant home of crime in a hot climate, Miami and became a reporter there. He now writes novels full time in between travelling around America in search of tennis and angling.
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Format:Paperback
Lingerie kingpin Murray Zemmelman, AKA the Bra King, decides he's had enough of the cold Northeast, his company, his second wife and life as he's been leading it in general, so he chucks it all and drives to Key West, popping prozac all the way. He's on his way to a new life and his first wife.
In Florida he decides to help Tommy Tarpon, a seller of sea shells and the last living Native American in his tribe, become a sovereign nation. If they can accomplish this, then they can open an Indian Casino. Little do they know, however, that the Mafia runs the gambling business and they're not to happy about our bumbling amateurs. This delightful read is a five star funny book and one that I recommend highly.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
In Florida he decides to help Tommy Tarpon, a seller of sea shells and the last living Native American in his tribe, become a sovereign nation. If they can accomplish this, then they can open an Indian Casino. Little do they know, however, that the Mafia runs the gambling business and they're not to happy about our bumbling amateurs. This delightful read is a five star funny book and one that I recommend highly.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A breeze of a read
1 Jun 2004
Format:Paperback
Lingerie mogul Murray Zemelman, "a.k.a. the Bra King," opts out of his dismal life in suburban New Jersey and heads for Key West in this delightfully funny and suspenseful novel.
Popping Prozac, the workaholic Murray is soon itching for a project in his island paradise. He finds it in Tommy Tarpon, a lugubrious Indian, the last of his tribe. Murray's fishing ineptitude breaches Tommy's sullen defenses and Murray's natural salesmanship soon has Tommy agreeing to claim his tribal island heritage and turn it into a casino resort.
Unfortunately their plan requires the aid of a sleazy state senator with mob connections and schemes of his own. But the preliminaries go smoothly enough and Murray embarks on the project closest to his heart - winning back his original wife, the one he dumped for the trophy, wife number two.
Franny now has her own perfectly good life, but Murray's hapless schmoozing convinces her to visit and meet Tommy. She arrives as the double- and triple-crossings begin and gets spectacularly caught in the crossfire, forcing Murray to stage his most daring and fantastic scheme ever - the rescue of the woman he loves.
'Tropical Depression' is a breeze of a read with wholly likable and entertaining characters, ear-perfect dialogue and a zany plot which loses nothing to the Supreme Court decision rejecting Indian casinos in Florida.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Delightful, Entertaining Yarn
24 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
Delightful, off-the-wall, light entertainment. Who'd have thought a Prozac overdose could lead to such an amusing story (when I took too much, it left me anxious, wired, and paranoid)? I picked this book up in desperation, looking for some light reading ... and it was perfect--engaging enough to hold my attention, amusing enough for chuckles and the occasional belly laugh (wait 'til the "Vikings" make their appearance), off-beat enough not to be predictable--just what the doctor ordered on vacation! (Silly me, I had brought along an entire trunk full of political philosophy!) Shames' tale is less outrageous than the Hiaasen novels I've read (Sick Puppy and Stormy Weather) and a bit lighter, too. It's not as dark as an Elmore Leonard novel, either. Neither is it total mind fluff--and it's ambiguous enough to avoid a Hollywood Ending. For those suffering from situational depression, it has a not-so-subtle message: "Better chemistry through living." Break out of the life in which you're trapped and the brain chemistry may just sort itself out without the Prozac, St. John's Wort, or $100/hr therapist. Four stars for solid entertainment value. Four stars for whimsy. Four stars for daring to be just weird enough to be interesting. (If you'd like to dialogue about this review, please click on the "about me" link above and drop me an email. Thanks!)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
In the Top 10 Funniest Books List!
25 Dec 2001
Format:Paperback
This is a hilarious book with zany characters and situations. I dare anyone to read to the Indian fishing scene without laughing out loud!
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