- Triggerfish Twist
"Triggerfish Twist" is the fourth book in Tim Dorsey's as-yet unnamed series of books which were centered on
Serge A. Storms . It was published in 2002.The book takes place in the summer of 1997, somewhere in the midst of the events of "
Florida Roadkill ". "Triggerfish Twist" may be considered more of a "parallel work" than asequel orprequel . As an excerpt from [http://www.timdorsey.com Dorsey's website] states::Warning from the publisher:When Tim Dorsey sat down to write his first novel, "Florida Roadkill", he didn't know what he was doing. He killed off way too many people. Now he needs them.:So take a warped trip back in time as Dorsey reunites the living and the soon to be very dead in "Triggerfish Twist.".Jim Davenport, a midwesterner who is non-confrontational to an extreme degree, is transferred to his company's branch in
Tampa, Florida . He is excited about the move, largely due to a misprint in a magazine that recommended the city as one of the top ten places to live in the country. His family moves into a house on Triggerfish Lane in a cozy subdivision. But the job quickly proves to be disappointing. Jim's neighbors are a strange bunch of eccentrics. Crime is much worse than he had thought. Life in central Florida is not what he expected.And then a house down the street is rented by Serge Storms, Sharon Rhodes and Coleman. Serge seems pleasant enough, but there is definitely something odd about him. Sharon is a spiteful coke-headed hooker. Coleman is a brain-dead stoner who is constantly under the influence of "something", from alcohol to illegal drugs.
Life for Jim Davenport gets much more surreal from that point onward. Soon, this once-reasonable man is stretched to the breaking point by some very unreasonable circumstances.
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