(With a completely redesigned cover in 2003!) Jimmy Buffett cooks up a fictional gumbo of dreamers, wackos, modern-day pirates and sharks. Welcome to paradise. Paperback version.

Where Is Joe Merchant? Five years ago, the rock star committed suicide, yet he keeps popping back into the tabloid headlines like a piece of toast. Could he actually be alive? That's what his sister, hemorrhoid-ointment heiress Trevor Kane, wants to know. Journalist Rudy Breno cares only that Merchant gets bigger headlines than Elvis. And for renegade seapilot Frank Bama, the mystery is turning his life upside down.