Wrecker 是 Carl Hiaasen 最新的青少年冒險小說，主角 Valdez Jones VIII 因祖先曾打撈沉船而有了「Wrecker」這個外號。某天，他發現一艘擱淺的快艇，卻遭船上男子威脅收買，要他「裝作沒看到」。但事情沒那麼簡單，這群人不斷出現在他生活周遭，甚至要求他加入非法行動。為了自保，Wrecker 必須揭開他們的勾當，同時設法脫身。作品延續 Hiaasen 一貫的黑色幽默與環境議題，結合動作、謎團與令人發笑的插曲（包括「會亂拉屎的鬣蜥」），讓故事驚險又娛樂十足。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. H
