Beaches & Bullets

On the run from the Wisconsin Mafia for gambling debt, laid-off snowmobile factory worker, Joe Chromansky, destitute and desperate, flees to an abandoned houseboat in the Florida Keys. Accompanied by a mysterious woman, he agrees to lead a ragged expedition to Cuba to steal Fidel Castro's legendary baseball card collection, only to find that his real trouble has begun - fatherhood. For the discerning reader low on Tim Dorsey and Carl Hiaasen books, turn the page to Florida author, CD Dowell, who mines familiar yet totally original material on madcap romp through the Sunshine States and elsewhere. It's beginning to look like there might be something in the water after all.