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Overview

Welcome to another typical summer in Florida, the season of the storms. Serge storms.

That lovable, under-undermedicated dispenser of truth, justice, and trivia is back with a vengeance. And not a weirdness-laced moment too soon.

His cherished home state is about to take a beating, and from far more than the way-too-routine conga line of hurricanes bearing down on the peninsula. Bodies have begun turning up at a disturbing rate, even for Florida, and it looks like a brutal serial killer is on the loose, which highly offends Serge's moral sensibilities and he vows to stop at nothing in his juggernaut to make All Things Right . . . except if he gets bored or distracted by a cool souvenir or . . . or a . . . whatever.

But his path won't be obstacle free.

Agent Mahoney has picked up the scent. The obsessive criminal profiler--just released from a mental hospital where he'd been sent for getting too deep inside Serge's head--is convinced there is no second killer. Serge's personality is simply splitting from decades of burning with incandescent zest for everything under the sun. Then there's Coleman, whose triathlete approach to the sport of polyabuse binging just might derail the mission more than the entire police community put together.

The pace picks up. Winds howl, TV reporters fly around the beach, the Party Parrot parties on, and questions mount: Who's stalking Tampa Bay's most sensitive journalist? Did Tom Cruise go too easy on Matt Lauer? Do multiple orgasms improve storm tracking? Why is the feeding-tube guy so quiet? Will Molly ruin our antihero's dreams of playing the electric guitar better than Clapton? . . . All of which ultimately leads to the most pressing question on everyone's new-millennium lips:

What would Serge do?

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Wyman has a daunting assignment: finding the right voice for Dorsey's larger-than-life antihero, Serge A. Storms, a likable, certifiably insane serial killer who rarely stops talking long enough to breathe. Wyman settles on just the right combination of tones for the screwball sociopath's generally amusing rants against government, the media, marriage and ignorant cops. At first, Storms seems like just another motormouth Florida crime crazy, but Dorsey makes us move past his verbal diarrhea to the oddly honorable, moral, blissfully happy man who just happens to be a raving wacko. Wyman undercuts the character's in-your-face boorish nattering with a redemptive exuberance and a winning joy of life. He also has no trouble delineating supporting characters like a dazed and reluctant newspaper reporter; a dim, dogged federal agent on Storms's trail; a pompous news executive; several neurotic psychologists; and another serial killer in the area. The result may not be a masterwork of suspense—there's never a doubt that Storms will prevail against knife, gun or twister—but you couldn't ask for a funnier guide to the Sunshine State, with or without hurricane. Simultaneous release with the Morrow hardcover (Reviews, Dec. 11). (Feb.)

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Scathing humor strips the pretense off its targets like a hurricane in bestseller Dorsey's rapid-fire ninth thriller. Last seen in The Big Bamboo (2006), serial killer Serge A. Storms, who seems like all of the Marx brothers rolled into one, rumbles across Florida in a stolen Hummer with his usually drunk or stoned friend, Coleman. Serge follows one hurricane after another, driving in the relatively safe eye of the storm, pointing out fascinating bits of Florida history and only killing those who truly deserve it. That would include the guy in the car next to you blasting his music as well as the person price-gouging hurricane victims. The murders are accomplished in appropriately bizarre, if not graphic, fashion. As Serge evades law enforcement and perennial nemesis Agent Mahoney, his latest road trip allows him to skewer everything from President Bush to fast food establishments, with particular emphasis given to the foibles of the media (newspapers) for which Dorsey once worked. 13-city author tour. (Feb.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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It's hurricane season, and two serial killers are on the loose in Florida. Who else but Serge A. Storms to the rescue? With a nine-city tour. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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“Hilarious”

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060829681
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/1/2008
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 165,237
  • Series: Serge Storms Series, #9
  • Product dimensions: 4.15 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Tim Dorsey
Tim Dorsey

Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is the author of thirteen novels: Electric Barracuda, Gator A-Go-Go, Nuclear Jellyfish, Atomic Lobster, Hurricane Punch, The Big Bamboo, Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, Orange Crush, Triggerfish Twist, The Stingray Shuffle, Cadillac Beach, and Torpedo Juice. He lives in Tampa, Florida.

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Hurricane Punch

A Novel
By Tim Dorsey

HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Copyright © 2007 Tim Dorsey
All right reserved.

Chapter One

Tampa

The consistently inventive positions of the hurricane-flung bodies validated the chaos theory, particularly those equations involving trajectory, procrastination and trailer parks. Certain corpses seemed purposefully arranged, the rest very much not. Some appeared to have been scattered by mortar strikes, others peacefully reclined like stuffed pandas on a child's bed, still others looked like sick practical jokes being played on the recovery crews. The disturbing circumstance of one particular body, the next to be discovered, was no accident.

But wait, we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's back up. . . . June 1.

The opening day of the Atlantic hurricane season was like any other: dire predictions in the media and cheerful sales at the home-improvement centers.

How people ramped up for hurricanes depended on experience. If you'd been through a direct hit, you didn't fool around. Plywood, gas, go. Those with small children were the first to bolt, followed by seasonal residents, who had more options. The old-timers went one of two ways: Most had developed keen instincts and knew precisely when to pull the trigger; the crustier stayed put no matter what and were interviewed on CNN. Newer residents forgot to charge up cell phones; the wealthy scheduled unscheduled vacations; families gathered family albums; insurance executives canceledcoverage. Prescriptions and sandbags were filled. Some believed in the power of hoarding canned meat; others lost faith in electricity and withdrew massive amounts of cash from ATMs. Door-to-door entrepreneurs purchased chain saws for the brisk post-strike downed-tree business. There were the tourists, who stared bitterly at unused portions of multi-park passes; sailboat owners, who spiderwebbed vessels to docks; the motor-oil-baseball-cap people standing in the beds of pickup trucks, making everyone wonder by loading the heaviest, most worthless shit; and college students, whose hurricane preparation consisted of not knowing a storm was coming.

The memories of 2004 were supposed to greatly improve public awareness. Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne.

Since then, authorities found less trouble getting residents to heed evacuation orders. But not a lot less. The culture of complacency had deep roots in nearly four decades of borrowed luck. There was one ten-year period from 1975 to 1985 when but a single hurricane made landfall in Florida. The next seven years saw only three more. Meanwhile, thousands of new communities and condos sprouted along coastlines with the growth-speed and sturdiness of spring-shower mushrooms.

Then 2004. As many hurricanes that had struck during seventeen years pummeled the state in less than six weeks.

A lot of residents learned their lesson and installed the latest storm shutters. Others drank beer.

Then 2005.

Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Wilma. Another wake-up call. Someone hit the snooze alarm.

Hurricane shutters were already up on an old theater in Seminole Heights. It was now a low-rent professional building. A clock ticked on the wall of an upstairs office, postmodern feng shui. Two people sat in white leather chairs, facing each other twenty feet apart. Only one could see the clock. That was by design.

A self-assured woman with pulled-back strawberry hair folded her hands on top of a small notebook. She smiled with genuineness. "What are you thinking about?"

"It's dark in here."

"The shutters are up," said the psychiatrist.

"I know," said Serge. "A big one's already on the way, and it's only the beginning of June. It's all I've been able to think about."

"The anxiety's perfectly normal. Especially after the last few years. I've been seeing a lot more patients--"

"Oh, I'm not worried," said Serge. "I'm cookin'! I love hurricane season!"

Her expression changed. "Why?"

"Potato chips."

The doctor took a deep, poised breath and looked down at her notebook. "I didn't think I'd ever see you again."

Serge slouched in his chair. "I was in the neighborhood."

"I just moved to this office. That means you had to look me up."

"Happened to be reading the Yellow Pages."

"Give yourself more credit. The last time we saw each other, you were involuntarily committed. This time you came on your own. You're taking steps."

"See? And you wonder why I've been away so long. You still think I'm crazy."

"That's an unfortunate term we don't like to use."

"I like to use it," said Serge. "You want to talk about crazy? I knew this caseworker who was checking on a guy in a St. Pete transient hotel. One of those beautiful old places with the striped awnings over the sidewalk. But that's another tragedy, another day. My friend knocks on the door and doesn't get an answer, so he tries the knob. Unlocked. He goes in, and there's shit everywhere. I don't mean trash or PlayStations. I mean real shit. The smell hit him like a shovel. The guy he's looking for is sitting in the middle of the floor wearing nothing but one of those hats with the moose antlers, singing Peter Gabriel--Shed my skin!--playing with more turds, sculpting little bunny rabbits. He's got a whole bunch of them lined up on the floor in an infantry formation like some kind of Easter-morning nightmare. My friend says, 'Tito, you haven't been taking your medication, have you?' Then he gets hit in the chest with a shit-bunny. But he tells me he likes his job because it's something brand new every day. In my thinking, there's good brand new and bad. Know what I mean?"

"And this story is important to you how?"

"That's crazy. I just want someone to talk to."

"Then let's talk. How have you been? Do you recognize the improvement?" "Not really."

"I can," said the doctor. "When we first met, you were wearing a straitjacket."

"Since then I've learned to dress for success."

"What about your medication? Have you been taking it?"

Serge squirmed into a different slouch. "Those pills made my head thick. I was turning into my friend Coleman. You know how you are the first few seconds after waking up in the morning? He's stretching it into a life."



Continues...
Excerpted from Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey Copyright © 2007 by Tim Dorsey. Excerpted by permission.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 4, 2008

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    Leave it up to Serge A. Storms to go on a killing spree in the middle of a major hurricane, just to prove to the police that he hasn't gone soft! And as always Coleman, is at his side....the man who spends his life in the state just waking up. I absolutely recommend this to anyone with a sharp sense of humor and a love of fast- paced, well timed events!

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    Recommend for those that like a funny book that reads well. Non-stop antics keep you entertained all day.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 25, 2007

    A Zany Serge Festival

    I really like this latest installment in the chaotic life of Serge A. Storms. My favorites remain 'Cadillac Beach' and 'Orange Crush', but the entire series is entertaining, especially for those who love Florida. I was intrigued by the previous reviewer's interest in filming this book. But I would pick Gary Sinise for the role of Serge and Woody Harrelson as Coleman. And 'Torpedo Juice' would make the best movie, with Tina Fey a brilliant choice as Serge's wife 'imho'.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 14, 2007

    STORMS IS PRE-TOLL BOOTH SONNY (CORELONE)--

    I have not as of this moment read 'hurricane punch'. But the moment is due any...Um...Er... Moment. Tim dorsey is my favorite guilty pleasure. Serge is my favorite mass murderer (talk about guilty). Even if the book were to explode like a 'nature girl' bomb, i would lie & give it a high '5'. There has been far too much said about 'surge' (talk about mass murder). The world needs the sanity of dorsey's serge. Amen !!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 18, 2007

    Hurricane Punch... the movie

    Maybe we really should start with 'Florida Roadkill' for the first movie. Then we could have all of those sequels. Anywho, I have the two main actors lined up: Coleman - Jack Black... Serge Storms - Who else in the world but Nicholas Cage?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 31, 2007

    Dorsey's Best Since Triggerfish Twist

    Anxiously awaiting this release I was not disappointed. Dorsey now rules Florida Fiction! The use of Serge as the All American Anti-hero is classic. The two plot twists that occur, you really don't see them coming.

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    The Stormster is blowing up storms

    Serial killer Serge A. Storms and his friend Coleman storm across Florida as tourists tracking hurricanes in a ¿borrowed¿ vehicle. FBI Special Agent Mahoney follows the path of destruction caused by the Storm that is the Storm Serge, who provides his unique brand of justice while Coleman gets stoned. --- Serge seeks history on their safari, but will also do what he does best, kill those he thinks deserve death. Hurricane extortionists are public enemy number one in his mind so when he runs across a price-gouger, he renders death unto them just like he assumes President Bush would expect a loyal American to execute. He is gentler with the media though he thinks they are begging parasites who deserve death for their pathetic coverage, but he realizes they suicide over one another with their feeble reporting. Life in the eye of the Storm is death. --- The plot is a bit loose, but fans of the Stormster will not care as he is providing satirical justice to bad dudes as defined by him. The story line is fast-paced and filled with local Florida history as Serge and Coleman traverse the state. However, the trademark biting absurdity of American pretenses involving a horde of subjects like fast food, the Bush, the media, hurricane watchers and government responses (more like alibis), loud music lovers, and as always Florida are ripped past their claimed moral high-ground to the ridiculous insides in this delightful mocking thriller with the punch of a hurricane. --- Harriet Klausner

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