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Tricky business

A tropical storm hits a casino boat off the coast of Florida changing the lives of a quirky set of passengers.

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  • "A tropical storm hits a casino boat off the coast of Florida changing the lives of a quirky set of passengers."@en
  • "A tropical storm hits a casino boat off the coast of Florida changing the lives of a quirky set of passengers."
  • "Auf einem abgetakelten Kreuzfahrtschiff vor der Küste von Miami, auf dem Glücksspiele veranstaltet werden, treffen sich verschiedene skurrile Typen: Lebenslustige, schlagfertige Senioren, mittelmäßige Musiker, ein gescheiterter Kapitän, Drogendealer und andere Klein und Großkriminelle. Ein Hurrikan und verbrecherische Machenschaften auf dem Schiff führen zu turbulenten Verwicklungen und mörderischen Komplikationen rund um Liebe, Geld und Macht. Doch die Handlung ist nebensächlich. Der amerikanische Autor von satirischen Sachbüchern (zuletzt: "Die Achse des Blöden", BA 8/03) und Romanen wie "Big trouble" (BA 7/01) entfacht ein Feuerwerk kurioser Situationskomik so rasant, dass die Zusammenhänge manchmal auf der Strecke bleiben. Die turbulente Satire ist für Freunde von deftigem amerikanischem Slapstick überall geeignet."
  • "An unusual assortment of passengers, including Fay Benton, a cocktail waitress and single mother, and hired killer Lou Tarrant embark on a voyage aboard the Extravaganza of the Seas, a gambling ship with another mysterious function."
  • "An unusual assortment of passengers, including Fay Benton, a cocktail waitress and single mother, and hired killer Lou Tarrant embark on a voyage aboard the Extravaganza of the Seas, a gambling ship with another mysterious function."@en
  • ""Wein sich auf einem abgetakelten Kreuzfahrtschiff vor der Küste Miamis spielsüchtige Glücksritter, mittelmäßige Gitarristen, wunderschöne Kellnerinnen, schlagfertige Senioren, drogendealende Gangster und ein feuchtfrölicher Tropensturm in die Quere kommen, bliebt kein Auge trocken. Vor allem nicht beim Leser"--Page 4 of cover."
  • "The Extravaganza of the Seas is a five-thousand-ton cash cow, a top-heavy tub whose sole function is to carry gamblers three miles from the Florida coast, take their money, then bring them back so they can find more money. In the middle of a tropical storm one night, these characters are among the passengers it carries: Fay Benton, a single mom and cocktail waitress desperate for something to go right for once; Johnny and the Contusions, a ship's band with so little talent they are . . . well, the ship's band; Arnold and Phil, two refugees from the Beaux Arts Senior Center; Lou Tarant, a wide, bald man who has killed nine people, though none recently; and an assortment of uglies whose job it is to facilitate the ship's true business, which is money-laundering or drug-smuggling or . . . something."@en
  • "On board of the Extravaganza of the Seas, a wildly diverse group of people find themselves in the middle of a tropical storm."@en
  • ""An unusual assortment of passengers including Fay Benton, a cocktail waitress and single mother, and hired killer Lou Tarrant embark on a voyage aboard the Extravaganza of the Seas, a ship with another mysterious function"--English ed."

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  • "Bestseller 2004 (Englisch)"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Хитрый бизнес"
  • "Tricky business"@it
  • "Tricky business"
  • "Tricky business"@en
  • "Tricky Business : Roman"
  • "Tricky business / M"
  • "Tricky business : Roman"
  • "Tricky business : [Roman]"
  • "ʻAsaḳim mefuḳpaḳim"
  • "Khitryĭ biznes"
  • "Tricky Business [Roman]"

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