Trap Line

Carl Hiaasen · Bill Montalbano

Dec 2010 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

A Key West fishing captain takes on Florida’s drug lords in this “splendidly written” crime story coauthored by the #1 New York Times–bestselling novelist (The New York Times Book Review).

Though he is one of Key West’s most skilled fishing captains, Breeze Albury barely ekes out a living on the meager earnings of his trade. Meanwhile, Cuban and Colombian drug smugglers thrive all around—and they have their sights set on Albury and his fishing boat.
 
After the smugglers cut his three hundred trap lines and crush his livelihood, Albury is forced to run drugs to survive. But when he gets busted by the crooked chief of police and becomes a target of the drug machine’s brutal hit men, Albury becomes a vigilante on the seas of Florida, unleashing a fiery and relentless vengeance on the most dangerous criminals south of Miami.
 
Along with Powder Burn and A Death in China, this is one of the early suspense thrillers written by Carl Hiaasen and Bill Montalbano, a writing team praised for their “fine flair for characters and settings” (Library Journal). Perfect for fans of the Doc Ford novels by Randy Wayne White, Trap Line is an action-packed preview of Hiaasen’s stellar Florida-set crime novels including Sick Puppy, Tourist Season, and Razor Girl.

Ratings and reviews

Not nearly as good as his own stuff. Only one good honest laugh the whole book. Ghost written books by acclaimed authors never fail to disappoint.

I don't love in Florida, and know this is fiction, but these two have a great knack to bring the characters alive a d spin a fun story. Never could put hos books down! Another blistering read!

Great descriptions of the keys, but just doesn't have the humor or the characters I am used to with this author.

About the author

Carl Hiaasen (b. 1953) is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of more than twenty adult and young adult novels and nonfiction titles, including the novels Strip Tease (1993) and Skinny Dip (2004), as well as the mystery-thrillers Powder Burn (1981), Trap Line (1982), and A Death in China (1984), which were cowritten with fellow Miami Herald journalist Bill Montalbano (1941–1998). Hiaasen is best known for his satirical writing and dark humor, much of which is directed at various social and political issues in his home state of Florida. He is an award-winning columnist for the Miami Herald, and lives in Vero Beach.
 
Bill Montalbano (1940–1998) was a foreign correspondent and prize-winning reporter. Born in New York City, he graduated from Rutgers University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1969. As a Latin American correspondent for the Miami Herald, Montalbano received an Overseas Press Club award in 1973, the Maria Moors Cabot Prize in 1974, and the Ernie Pyle Award in 1975, among other accolades in later years. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1983, and traveled around the world before settling in London in 1995. Montalbano is survived by his second wife and five children.