What would you do if you found a hat with a $7,000,000 check hidden inside?
What if it came off a dead man’s head?
A roguishly handsome yet reluctant hero and a cast of the most memorable characters you’ll ever meet collide in this zany and raucous tropical thriller by David Berens.The unostentatious Troy Bodean is the new owner of an outback tea-stained, straw cowboy hat with a colorful peacock … unostentatious Troy Bodean is the new owner of an outback tea-stained, straw cowboy hat with a colorful peacock plume. He found the unlucky hat in an abandoned aluminum fishing boat and decided the smell of Old Spice and lack of an owner made it his for the taking. Little did he know there was a misplaced cashier’s check hidden inside.
Unbeknownst to our hero, he’d attracted a whole bevy of killers out to kill him on his head along with the hat. From Daisy Mae and Ellie Mae Gallup, the mothers of Troy’s alleged love child, to the bumbling New Zealander assassins, Darren The Body McGlashen and Man’Ti, to the most Böhring, yet shady mill CEO in the business… they all have one thing on their minds—get that hat.
And Troy has no idea why. Laugh, ache, and groan as the chase for Troy and his hat lead him on the wildest ride on and around Pawleys Island, South Carolina in history. Who knows where it will all end?
Download Rogue Wave – A Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller today and find out. You’ll laugh until you die in this Hiaasen-esque thriller.
More in the Troy Bodean Tropical Thriller series:
- Rogue Wave
- Deep Wave
- Blood Wave
- Dark Wave
- Skull Wave
- Shark Wave – Coming Soon!
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Great plot and love the crazy characters
kind cookie cutter ….
This book was a freebie and you cannot complain about the price. Seemed a bit disorganized and all over the place. Hard to follow. Checked out the second in series but for now have not ordered it.
A little too much of comedic writing at the beginning, but this quickly resolves into a crazy, entertaining story. The characters are all extreme and hilarious. The mystery is suspenseful and not easy to solve. This I a fun book!
This book has many characters whose paths keep crossing in one situation or another. Some parts are really funny. We meet Troy Clint Bodean, an injured veteran from Afghanistan who has spent his last bit of money on a run-down house on the water at Pawleys Island, South Carolina. He finds a cowboy hat in a free floating boat as it hits him in the head while he was trying to retrieve his new fishing rod that was pulled away by a large fish. We meet a college student on Spring Break, Karah Campobello, who is visiting her cousin Laura-Kate who calls herself Georgianna because she does not want people to know about her rich family ties. We meet two thugs, one very big, Mon’ti, and one small and skinny, Darrell. Darrell’s parts of his body keep breaking off in various accidents and his feet and hands become badly infected, missing many of their digits. Both thugs have been hired to get back a seven million dollar check. Pawleys Island’s police officer, Chesney Biggins, investigates a murder and other crimes and also keeps crashing his police vehicle into an ice cream truck or an uber limousine, both driven by the ice cream truck owner and driver, one-eyed Willy. There are other unusual characters who get into strange situations. Each time I wanted to put the book down for one reason or another, it kept pulling me back until I finished it. it could be made into a slap-stick, funny movie.
Characters simply didn’t appeal enough for me to finish the book.
Predictable, slow, not believable
Simplistic, plot doesn’t hold together very well. Ok read, wouldn’t read it knowing what I know now.
Not much to like;tedious
Didn’t take long to get sick of the “Outback Tea -stained straw cowboy hat.” The same phrase over and over. That and the “fookin” horrible Aussie/Kiwi accent got old real quick. It became a distraction and spoiled what might have otherwise been a decent read.
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I’ts a gooder. buy
It became so improbable that I found it annoying and didn’t finish reading it.
Good book