Wrecker

Written by Carl Hiaasen

A boy stumbles upon a mysterious speedboat and is drawn into a dangerous web of secrets.

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336 pages· 810L

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Wrecker, a young boy in Key West, discovers a speedboat aground and is offered hush money by its shady occupants. As these men reappear in his life, demanding more than silence, Wrecker must navigate their dangerous world. Can he outsmart them and escape their grasp, or will he be ensnared in their illicit schemes? Dive into this thrilling adventure where every corner of Florida holds a new surprise.

From the publisher

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas–just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Welcome to another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen’s Florida! Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don’t want Wrecker to call for help–in fact, they’ll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West–at the marina, in the cemetery, even right outside his own door. And now they want more than his silence–they want a lookout. He’ll have to dive deep into their shady dealings to figure out a way to escape this tangled net. . . .

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