Beach Slapped

Florida isn't the only place with nuts coming out of the trees... Tropical wannabe and suburban refugee Jackson Poe is having a very strange week. It begins with a sexually frustrated sea lion and ends with the spirit of Steve McQueen dispensing karmic justice on the coastal streets of Surfland, Oregon. In between, a nudist mascot, a pissed off young woman and a lottery ticket gone horribly right team up to make the streets safe for little old ladies. A thriller in the finest South Florida tradition, Howe presents a hilarious rain of weirdness on America's wettest edge. "The best beach book of the year and maybe the best comedic thriller of the year." —Sheldon McArthur, North by Northwest Books "Barton is just like Dave Barry...on the Oregon Coast." —The News Guard