{"id":14383,"date":"2020-03-12T15:08:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/basket-case\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T15:08:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:08:02","slug":"basket-case","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/basket-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Basket Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, \u201cplotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff.\u201d Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba \u201caccident,\u201d might be the stiff of Jack\u2019s dreams\u2014if only he can figure out what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Standing in the way are (among others) his ambitious young editor, who hasn\u2019t yet fired anyone but plans to \u201cbreak her cherry\u201d on Jack; the rock star\u2019s pop-singer widow, who\u2019s using the occasion of her husband\u2019 s death to re-launch her own career; and the soulless, profit-hungry owner of the newspaper, whom Jack once publicly humiliated at a stockholders\u2019 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>With clues from the dead rock singer\u2019s music, Jack ultimately unravels Jimmy Stoma\u2019s strange fate\u2014in a hilariously hard-won triumph for muckraking journalism, and for the death-obsessed obituary writer himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlways be halfway prepared\u201d is Jack Tagger\u2019s motto\u2014and it\u2019s more than enough to guarantee a wickedly funny, brilliantly entertaining novel from Carl Hiaasen.<\/p>\n<p>BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen&#8217;s\u00a0<i>Bad Monkey<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, \u201cplotting to resurrect my newspaper career by yoking my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book_status":[],"book_genre":[],"class_list":["post-14383","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/14383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_status?post=14383"},{"taxonomy":"book_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_genre?post=14383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}