Tim Dorsey

Pineapple Grenade Tim Dorsey

Amagnet for hurricanes, boat people, and geezer snowbirds in pastels, Miamidoes crazy better than anywhere, whether it's themedia feeding frenzyover the "Hollow Man," a gut-less corpse found on the beach,orthegiant shark carcasses stuffed with some other human's limbsjamming up busy intersections. But Florida trivialista and one-man vigilante Serge Storms has bigger fish than dead stuffed sharks to fry. He wants to be a spy-and what better way to demonstrate his wares than by taking surveillancephotos of foreign consulatesas Miami plays host tothe Meeting of the Americas Conference!His best bud Coleman isn't sure about this James Bond stuff. But then Coleman is too stoned to be sure about much,including Serge's all-new Secret Master Plan. Could it involve the CIA spying on itself from the very place it launched Operation Mongoose to overthrow Castro? One thing is certain: neither Homeland Security nor the company is amused when newly caped crusadersSerge and Coleman start taking out would-be political assassins targeting a banana republic president. Atinpot dictator and the Hollow Man aren't the only pollutionthreateningFlorida's shores. There's a mysterious Mafioso selling grenade launchers, Gulf Spill oil, and anew shade ofscary inthe terror warning colorwheel. So many messeswhat's a concerned citizen-psychopath like Serge to do? No doubt, the fruit will fly whenhe pulls thepinout of this Pineapple Grenade!