num_pages: 315
description: Also known as Tropical IssueThe narrator is a Scots-born flower child who has become a celebrity make-up artist despite seemingly insurmountable handicaps. She becomes involved with Johnson Johnson in a sometimes deadly sometimes hilarious romp across the Atlantic Ocean and various Caribbean islands in pusuit of drug smugglers who use murder and piracy to gain their ends.
language: English
title: Dolly and the Bird of Paradise
publisher: Knopf