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By Tom Cooper

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With characters seemingly out of a Quentin Tarantino movie, Tom Cooper’s Florida Man gets into as much trouble as the ones we read about in the tabloids. The fun here is watching Reed Crowe bob and weave his way in and out of that trouble. For a character who would rather be left alone, Crowe winds up in the center of a hurricane. Add Cooper to the great list of authors who understand “The Sunshine State”: Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, and Randy Wayne White.

“A riotous journey into the heart of insanity also known as the State of Florida. Bravo!”—Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success

Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe's seedy businesses—a moribund motel and a shabby amusement park—endangered, but so are his secrets. Crowe, a...