Wrecker - Paperback release

Vanessa Bettencourt
Aug 27, 2024
2 min read

Book Info:

Wrecker by Carl Hiaasen

Genre: Middle Grade Science Fiction

Publishing Date: August 27, 2024 (Paperback Release)

Synopsis:

Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas—just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Welcome to another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen’s Florida!

Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living.

So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don’t want Wrecker to call for help—in fact, they’ll pay him to forget he ever saw them.

Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West—at the marina, even in the cemetery. And now they want more than his silence—they want a lookout.

He’ll have to dive deep into their shady dealings to figure out a way to escape this tangled net. . . .

Content Warning: lynch mob, racism

Book Links:

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62366722

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BDR3X2XB

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wrecker-carl-hiaasen/1142194706

IndieBound: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wrecker/18900644

About the Author:

CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the best sellers Bad Monkey, Lucky You, Nature Girl, Razor Girl, Sick Puppy, Skinny Dip, and Star Island, as well as six best-selling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp, Skink, and Squirm. His most recent work of nonfiction is Assume the Worst, a collaboration with the artist Roz Chast.