It's about a lady bounty hunter - Stephanie Plum who always seem to get herself thrown into garbage dumps / dodging bullets & basically throw herself into dangerous situations (most of the time unwittingly). She has a childhood sweetheart, Joe Morelli & at the same time is attracted to another cool, calm & collected bounty hunter, Ranger (just Ranger.... no surname & not even sure if tht's his real name! Bet it's a name to hide his real name tht's actually quite funny sounding tht he doesn't want ppl to know).
1 day she's just fed-up with tht kind of life & called it quits. She tried to change career, but not having any previous experience (besides hauling criminals), she had to start from the bottom (or as the way thing progressed - from the top actually).
1) A clerk in a button factory - should be a safe enough behind the desk job. But she lasted less than 24hrs because she refused to "provide" sexual favours to the boss. Along the way, she managed to "acquire" a few bullet holes on the back screen & body of her car (presumably fr her enemies)
2) Work in a laundrette - Kan Kleen, operated by a Mama Macaroni. (oh btw, her employment was automatically terminated when her employer got blown to bits thanks to the bomb planted in Stephanie's car, but Mama Macaroni decided to take over & drive instead. Suffice to say, despite Mama Macaroni's "bulk" there's not much left to be collected after the explosion).
3) With her "superb" track record of causing havoc in all her previous jobs, she had to move her career direction downwards... To be exact - down to the bucket, where she works as a "1-leg-kick" (Canto: Yat Kiok Thek, which means 1 person do all chores) in a fast food restaurant called Cluck-in-a-Bucket. She has to say corny stuff like "Thank you for visiting Cluck-in-a-Bucket. Have a clucky day!" & she has to cluck like a chicken for customers who asks for it (imagine tht happening in KFC... For the life of me I can't imagine someone wanting the order-taker to cluck). The last day of her employment, she was stationed at the drive-thru counter taking orders. It was her last day, because someone (1 of her "pals" she managed to cause some real injury in her previous job as a bounty hunter) pulled up the drive-thru counter & pass her a gift wrapped package (it ticked!). In panic, she accidentally threw the parcel into hot boiling oil tht was meant for frying chickens! Again in panic, her co-worker sprayed water from the fire-extinguisher. Kaboom!! Let's just say Cluck-in-a-Bucket became Cluck-in-ashes.
4) Trying to safe Stephanie from herself, Ranger offered her a position in his firm, running searches on ppl they had to catch / spy on / provide security for (Ranger is both a bounty hunter & a successful business man providing security & surveillance services). She borrowed Morelli's SUV to get to work, but being the disaster magnet she is, the SUV turned to dust along with his rickety garage when a bomb exploded as soon as Stephanie left the car to enter Morelli's hse (where she's staying until "things settles down"). So she ended up getting a Ducati fr Ranger (cos' any bomb planting will be obvious as there's no nook / cranny to hide it) & a loaded gun to protect herself.
She tried to solve the mystery of events tht happened to her lately. Someone seriously wants her dead - but who? She had a suspect, but he's supposed to be dead. Turned out she has been barking up the wrong tree & the mystery unravelled towards the end (of which she very nearly got killed if not for Ranger). Will not spoil the ending in case you want to read it.
Though it seems I have written quite a lot abt the book, but actually there are more disasters to check out tht I did not mention above. The ending was quite abrupt though. It was as if even the author is sick of coming up with more disasters & just decided to end it with Steph nearly got killed, Ranger saved her & the culprit reprimanded (oh not without the normal criminal spill their beans on why they do this / that... That is "sooooo..... normal" for criminals to do - i.e. explain themselves... being sarcastic there).
Overall an ok read, but pretty far fetched most of the time. Exaggerated version of a walking catastrophe.
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