Salty

✍ Scribed by Smith, Mark Haskell

• Book ID: 108483332
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 160 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781555848781

✦ Synopsis

"Smith gets the details of mid-level rock stardom just right ... mixing laughs and satire like a cross between Carl Hiaasen and Ross Thomas. A-" --Entertainment Weekly

From the author of Moist and Delicious comes a raucous comic novel where anything goes. Turk Henry, an overweight, unemployed rock star married to a supermodel, has discovered that Thailand is probably the last place a recovering sex addict should go on vacation, yet here he is, surrounded by topless groupies and haunted by the stares of hundreds of luscious bar girls. Turk's struggles with monogamy, however, pale beside a greater challenge when his wife is abducted by a group of renegade, shipless Thai pirates. As Turk, whose life skills are limited to playing bass and partying, navigates the back alleys of Bangkok and the deadly jungles of Southeast Asia to save his wife, Salty heats up and sweats bullets. Featuring skinflint American tourists, topless beaches, a...