The Riptide Ultra-Glide
A Novel
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4.1 • 114 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Lovable serial killer Serge Storms is back and coming to the rescue of a Midwestern couple who aren't finding Florida quite as charming as he does in Riptide Ultra-Guide, the sixteenth installment in Tim Dorsey's bestselling series.
When newly unemployed Patrick and Barbara McDougal decide a vacation in Florida is just what they need to put life back on the right track, awful accommodations, a robbery, and a not-so-helpful police department make them rethink their decision to drown their troubles in paradise.
Luckily, charismatic (and crazy!) tour guide Serge Storms and his sidekick, Coleman, are up for another action-packed adventure in this outrageous crime thriller that Tim Dorsey fans won't soon forget.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Dorsey serves up his usual mix of mayhem and mirth in his 16th Serge Storms thriller (after 2012's Pineapple Grenade). As Serge accompanied by his stoner companion, Coleman, who acts as straight man and one-man audience for Serge's frequently baffling behavior travels through Florida, he spouts weird bits of state history and dishes out inventive and unusual punishments to annoying miscreants. In particular, Serge, who aims for his own reality show ("You have to fake a lot of stuff"), deals with a beach bully, a rip-off artist preying on the elderly, incompetent doctors, shyster lawyers, pain clinics, and a budding turf battle between the Kentucky mafia and Mexican drug lords. Meanwhile, laid-off Wisconsin school teachers Barbara and Patrick McDougall embark on a Florida vacation that they will regret. Serge, the McDougalls, and the warring traffickers collide on a course that proves often hilarious and sometimes fatal. 10-city author tour.
Customer Reviews
Serge is at it again
Serge and Coleman have another wonderful adventure thru South Florida. Fighting crime in their own sort of drug induced psychotic way!
Not the usual captivating Serge book
It was okay but just okay. The ending was anti-climatic
fairly booting
Ripped Off Riptide
I have read about 50 pages in this book and it has not made sense yet. It is about a couple of druggies and I'm not sure what else. Obviously the author is writing from experiences and has not yet recovered.