Shark Skin Suite
Tim Dorsey
Morrow, Jan 27 2015, $26.99
ISBN: 9780062240019
In Florida, Serge A. Storms kidnaps foreclosure paralegal Brook
Campanella although she is unaware of being abducted as they share plenty of
sex heading towards Key West, Meanwhile
the police hunt the pair in connection to a pair of recent murders. Though Serge feels somewhat insulted as the
TV news anchor barely mentions his twenty other kills, Brook faints. The couple goes separate ways as each
diligently but differently studies to become a lawyer. Brook attends law school; on the other hand
Serge assiduously watches legal thriller movies like Absence of Malice.
Shapiro, Heathcote-Mendacious and Blatt hires Brook after she
saves the home of Hilda and Vernon Rockford from the First American Bank
foreclosure. She sits as her second
chair to equally inexperienced Shelby Lang on the Sheffield et al v.
Consolidated Financial class action suit.
The institution robo-signed mortgages ignoring whether the person could
meet payments, and when they failed to remit repossessed the home to resell
it. Judge Kennesaw Montgomery Boone
makes it clear from the onset he believes corporations do no wrong; people do
wrong. However, neither the defendants
nor the Judge factored in Brook’s secret weapon Serge. With his sidekick Coleman, Serge interprets
the law applying his unique methodology to insure justice is served except when
Molly, in her distinctive appealing way, serves as judge and executioner.
The eighteenth Serge A. Storms thriller is a cutting satirical
look at American corporatocracy economic
system in which big government (in this case the courts) enables big business;
which in turn enables Big Government, etc. in an exclusive symbiotic mutualistic system. Fast-paced
with the usual jocular irreverence (see Tiger
Shrimp Tango), Serge and his
teammates are at their American exceptionalism
best.
Harriet Klausner
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