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Wrecker

by Carl Hiaasen

A Key West mystery with an unusual family name

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A Key West mystery with an unusual family name

Valdez Jones VIII’s nickname, Wrecker, comes from a family history of salvaging shipwrecks—a detail that takes on new significance when he finds a grounded speedboat. The men aboard want him to keep quiet, but their repeated appearances around Key West make the encounter hard to leave behind. The premise combines a child’s everyday Zoom-school routine with a widening mystery involving suspicious dealings, a cemetery, and even pooping iguanas. The Florida setting and comic complications shape an adventure about a young person caught between keeping silent and finding a way out of a dangerous entanglement.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Ages 9–12 looking for a humorous adventure with a mystery at its center.
  • Readers interested in stories set in Key West and involving smugglers or shipwrecks.

Themes

Family history and identitySecrecy and pressureMystery and adventureFlorida and coastal life

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Book overview

Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas--just as soon as he finishes Zoom school. Another wild adventure in Carl Hiaasen's Florida, now in paperback!

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. . . .
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