A mobster-chomping gator. A drifter on a rampage. One or both is coming for Troy!
Troy Bodean hopes that the picturesque Islamorada gives him the rest he desperately seeks.
But there’s a surly mama gator terrorizing the quirky island town. She’s killed a mafia boss’s son, a cross-dressing dancer from Key West, and a Fantasy Fest tourist all in one week. The feds and a nosy, local journalist … tourist all in one week. The feds and a nosy, local journalist think it’s the work of the infamous Cowboy Killer—wanted for a murderous rampage up and down the coast.
Leave it to Troy Bodean to get tangled up in this mangrove of a mess and become the scapegoat for all the dead bodies piling up. Yup, you guessed, it, everyone thinks he’s the notorious killer in the hat.
If the reporter catches him, he’ll be on the front page.
If the authorities catch him, he’ll go to jail.
If the Caparelli Mob catches him, he’ll be at the bottom of the gulf in a pair of concrete shoes.
But none of them will get him if the gator gets him first.
The climax explodes with the side-splitting mayhem that is a David Berens hallmark. Gator Wave is 8th book in the Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller series. If you love Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, and Elmore Leonard, you’ll love David Berens’s biggest, most entertaining Florida Fiction tale yet.
Buy Gator Wave to go along for the ride today!
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Gator Wave – a review by Rosemary Kenny
Hapless MC Troy Bodean seems to lurch from one adventure (not always pleasant) to another as he travels, Jack Reacher-like through the Florida landscape, (with little but his battered, not-so-lucky straw cowboy hat to shelter him from the elements) hoping for a beer or two and a friendly lady to cheer him on his carefree way.
However, in Gator Wave, Book 8 in David Berens’ excellent A Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller series, events take a rather more unfortunate (understatement), turn, when a gay man acts on his plan to seduce the metrosexually tempting son of a local Mafia boss, that leads to more trouble than he could ever have imagined, involving a ‘borrowed’ orange kayak and an angry man-eating female alligator.
Meanwhile Troy’s hat seems to have led him into trouble once more, in a sometimes hilarious case of mistaken identity centred round a strip club called Woody’s and a dancer who really is called Cinnamon Star!
What secrets will the mangroves yield to those who venture too close? Remember, curiosity may have killed the cat, then brought it back from satisfaction, but we nosy humans only have one life!
Make the easy choice and grab Gator Wave today – David Berens’ latest Troy Bodean adventure is sure to be a hit with fans of Carl Hiaasen and anyone who likes a good belly laughs to enhance their murder-mystery tropical thrillers!
Every time I think that David Berens has outdone himself, he surprises me with an even better book. Troy Broden is a (to me) a version of Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt except that Troy is always in the Florida Keys. David is maybe the best writer I have read in a long long time. Gator Wave is full of suspense and a lot of thrills. This really is a great book. Actually all of David’s Rouge series are all great reads. Everything you want in a book is in Gator Wave. This book is a 5 plus star book.
Troy Bodean is on the move again. He ends up in Islamorada in the Florida Keys. There is a killer on the loose labeled the Cowboy Killer because he wears a cowboy hat. Troy is also wearing the same style hat. A stolen kayak, missing persons, a killer and a mama alligator brings another thriller. There is a lot going on, but still a page turner and a wild conclusion.
Wow, what an unusual start!
Berens’ new book begins with a monster alligator on a killing spree, starting with the Matteo Caparelli, the son of a mafia boss; Troy Bodean finds a new job; and then we find mafia boss Dante Caparelli somewhere in the middle. Before we know it, Troy is considered to be a serial killer named the Cowboy Killer, and not the gator: go figure.
In the meantime, Troy is being hunted by a number of disparate number of people as well as the Capareli mob family and an assassin they hired.
So hop on board to this unusual story until you reach the exciting end. Along the way, you’ll find yourself either shaking your head or just suddenly laughing out loud! Regardless, you won’t regret it.
Allow a very full, long day for this strange, funny PG13 ramble with many side shoots that do eventually all come together. I had an ARC and this voluntary review is my own opinion.
A twisted and wild ride…
Any fan of David Berens can tell you that his stories have no shortage of action, adventure, highly imaginative plots, and some truly colorful characters. This book is no exception. Troy Bodean, the main character, finds himself in the Florida Keys where he manages to procure gainful employment at a local tennis club. It is at that point that a chaotic confluence of events begins to unfold in one of the most twisted yet riveting stories of this popular series. A serial killer, known as the Cowboy Killer, is loose amidst the community. His moniker is based on the fact that he wears a cowboy hat. Certain members of the local law enforcement begin to look with suspicion at Troy, a newcomer to the community, who, by coincidence, also happens to sport a straw cowboy hat. Many books would find that premise sufficient to fuel the entire story. Not so with this book. Beginning with a butterfly effect scenario, a seemingly harmless and potentially romantic canoe ride ultimately leads to an explosive killing spree in a local bar. Along the circuitous path to that fiery climax, however, the diverse inhabitants of this little community have numerous other problems playing out simultaneously that give the reader and Troy one amazingly wild ride as we follow a brilliantly devised Rube Goldberg-esque sequence of events illustrating the interconnectedness of the ultimate fates of each of the characters. I highly recommend this breathtaking adventure to all.
I was provided with an advance copy of this story by the author and I am voluntarily offering my honest and unbiased review.
Dukes of Hazard visit Florida – Well, not Really
Troy Bodean as one of the Dukes of Hazard kept popping into my head as I read through the latest addition to the Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller series. Broke and homeless Troy sees an ad for a maintenance man at a tennis club that sends him down the highways to Isalamorda, Florida. And then the misadventures begin. David Berens has spun a delightful cast of characters for these misadventures, that keep the action going and the humor high. The title, oh yes, there’s a hungry momma gator with a taste for humans who happens to live right in the middle of most of the action in the story.