Wrecker

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Ron Butler

#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. . . .

Critic reviews

★ "Hiaasen packs his tale with rich character details, local history, and present-day concerns, all while carefully spinning a layered mystery that gets more serious with every turn. One heck of a ride."—Booklist, starred review

"A batten-down-the-hatches thriller anchored by critical real-life themes." —Kirkus Reviews

"Action-packed and endlessly funny." — Shelf Awareness

"A beautifully told mystery with plenty of action and heart." —The Horn Book

"Hiaasen blends ecological conservation, family drama, and Key West history. Multilayered, with all the hallmarks of a thrilling heist." —Publishers Weekly

Refreshing new young characters from CH

I liked having some young people in the story. I hope Carl Hiaasen males a trend of it.

I love Carl Hiaasen’s books

So this one was pretty disappointing. Not much humor and a so so story line without interesting characters you find in his earlier books.

Loved it

Another fantastic story by Carl Hiaasen. Kept me glued to the radio. Recommend to everyone

Hey Carl why didn't you say it was a kids book ?

It's kind of funny, I think your teenager would enjoy this work possiblly. Definitely is not for a Adult person with an over room temperature IQ
What about Carl getting on years now So maybe that's it I did enjoy a lot of his earlier works..

Best book from Carl H. ever!!

The action made it difficult to put the book down. The cliffhangers were awesome! Declan