Picked it up on "bag day" at the Waco-McClennan County Library used book sale. I read it once, about 10 years ago. It was a lot of fun! So, I got this one specifically for release.

Five years ago, the rock star Joe Merchant committed suicide, yet he keeps popping back into the tabloid headlines like a piece of toast. Spotted everywhere from Cincinnati to Atlanta, the dead guitarist is now more famous than ever. Could he actually be alive?
Where is Joe Merchant? For Frank Bama, the quest to find him is just one more excuse to flee Key West and change latitudes. For Trevor Kane, the hemorrhoid-ointment heiress, it is an attempt to unravel the mystery of her brother's death. For Desdemona, Joe Merchant is another missing link in her communication with space aliens as she tries to build a rocket ship, and for yellow journalist Rudy Breno, Joe Merchant makes better headlines than Elvis.
Once again, Jimmy Buffett cooks up a fictional gumbo of dreamers, wackos, modern-day pirates, and sharks--as Frank and Trevor embark on a wild chase through the Caribbean Islands to Boomtown, an imaginary tropical oasis where anything can happen and everything does. Welcome to paradise.

RELEASE NOTES:

Leaving for Australia! Happy travels!

(Hey! Come to think of it, this book is the book that started the m-bag!)

And here is where the trouble began! Thanks very much for organising my m-bag FranciJo. I must polish my glasses & get reading.

I didn't enjoy this much - too wacky for my liking. I couldn't care less where Joe has got to.

G enjoyed it, though. It probably is more to the masculine taste.

In the magazine rack on the level 2 smoking terrace.