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Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack port Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my papers career by yoking my byline for some famous stiff". Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Pups, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba "incident", might be the stiff of Jack's dreams - only if he can find out what happened. Standing in the way are (amongst others) his ambitious young editor, who hasn't yet terminated anyone but blueprints to "break her cherry" on Jack port; the rock star's pop-singer widow, who's using the occasion of her husband's loss of life to relaunch her own career; and the soulless, profit-hungry owner of the papers, whom Jack port once publicly humiliated at a stockholders' meeting. With signs from the dead rock singer's music, Jack port in the end unravels Jimmy Stoma's peculiar destiny - in a hilariously hard-won triumph for muckraking journalism, as well as for the death-obsessed obituary article writer himself. "Always be halfway prepared" is Jack port Tagger's motto - and it's plenty of to guarantee a wickedly funny, brilliantly engaging novel from Carl Hiaasen.
