Big Trouble: Dave Barry’s Wild, Hilarious Miami Caper
A toad-licking teenager, a couple of bumbling hitmen, a runaway arms deal, and a mysterious box that everyone wants: only Dave Barry could tie it all together, and only in Miami.
The longtime Miami Herald humor columnist and Pulitzer winner Dave Barry turned his first novel, Big Trouble (1999), into a breakneck comic crime caper that crashes a dozen oddball Miami characters into one another over a single chaotic weekend. It is fast, funny, and a little bit filthy, a love letter to the gorgeous weirdness of South Florida written by the man who knows it best. A 2002 film followed, but the book is the real treat.
If you like your Florida fiction smart, absurd, and merciless, this is the perfect beach read. You will never look at airport security, or a can of mixed nuts, quite the same way again.
