{"product_id":"tricky-business-isbn-9780425192740","title":"Tricky Business","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cb\u003eDave Barry\u003c\/b\u003e is proud to have been elected Class Clown by the Pleasantville High School class of 1965. From 1983 to 2004, he wrote a weekly humor column for the\u003ci\u003e Miami Herald,\u003c\/i\u003e which in 1988 won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He is the author of some thirty books, including his bestselling Peter Pan prequels, written with Ridley Pearson; his Christmas story \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eClass Clown\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDave Barry’s History of the Millennium (So Far)\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eI’ll Mature When I’m Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. Barry lives in Coral Gables, Florida, with his family and a domestic staff of forty-seven.","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300563079397,"sku":"NP9780425192740","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780425192740.jpg?v=1767742956","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/tricky-business-isbn-9780425192740","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}