Johnny Vegas Several of Dorsey's novels feature one or more failed attempts by his recurring character, Johnny Vegas, to finally lose his virginity. In this novel, Johnny regularly trolls the seaside parties of South Beach in a Cigarette boat whose colors mislead spectators into thinking it belongs to Dan Marino: Johnny lures a young college coed onto his boat and is close to having sex with her, when she sees a bloated corpse float up with a chain around his neck (later revealed to be that of either Stinky or Ringworm); While Serge, Coleman and Sharon are touring South Beach, Sharon hitches a ride on Johnny's boat, and offers to have sex with him, but they are interrupted when a miniature caiman, that Serge bought at a gift shop and Coleman mistakenly placed in their hotel's freezer, thaws out and bites her ankle ferociously. She blames Johnny for the snafu and re-joins Serge and Coleman. Continuity A number of minor characters (such as Bradley Xeno, the boat captain, and McJagger, the retirement community operator) make minor appearances in the following book, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, which also features a passing reference to Stinky, Cheese-Dick and Ringworm. Dorsey's later novel Triggerfish Twist was published three years later, but the events of that novel take place at some unspecified point during the events of Florida Roadkill (as Dorsey's web site puts it, he didn't know what he was doing and killed too many characters he later decided he needed). Novels by Tim Dorsey 1999 American novels Fiction set in 1997 Novels set in Florida Novels set in Miami William Morrow and Company books