Background
Dorsey was born in Indiana but moved to Florida at an early age. He grew up in Riviera Beach, a small town in Palm Beach County just north of West Palm Beach.
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Dorsey graduated from Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua North.H, in 1979. He attended Auburn University, where he became the editor of The Auburn Plainsman, the student newspaper. Dorsey graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor"s degree in Transportation.
Career
Dorsey"s books are crime capers in the Florida style pioneered by John Doctorate. MacDonald. After graduation, he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and served as a police reporter for a local newspaper. In 1987, Dorsey relocated to Tampa, Florida, and became a reporter for The Tampa Tribune.
Until he resigned from the paper in 1999 to write full-time, he worked variously as political reporter, correspondent in the Tribune"s Tallahassee bureau, copy desk editor, and, finally, night metro editor and news coordinator.
He is also a Tampa Bay Rays fan from living in the same city. All of Dorsey"s novels feature Serge A. Storms as the primary character.
The character has several coexisting mental illnesses that render him obsessive, psychopathic, schizophrenic, and frequently homicidal, but Storms serves as the anti-hero in Dorsey"s works due to his strong sense of moral absolutism and justice. Serge is intelligent, and frequently devises wildly inventive ways of condemning villains (or at least who he perceives as such) to death.
His co-pilot in his adventures is Coleman, the exact opposite of Serge.
Whereas Serge is high-strung and straight-edge, Coleman is a drug user who goes to extreme lengths to maintain his buzz. Florida Roadkill (1999),
Hammerhead Ranch Motel (2000),
Orange Crush (2001),
Triggerfish Twist (2002),
The Stingray Shuffle (2003),
Cadillac Beach (2004),
Torpedo Juice (2005),
The Big Bamboo (2006),
Hurricane Punch (2007),
Atomic Lobster (2008),
Nuclear Jellyfish (2009),
Gator A-Go-Go (2010),
Florida Roadkill: A Survival Guide (2010)
Electric Barracuda (2011),
When Elves Attack (2011). Pineapple Grenade (2012),
Squall Lincolnshire: Selected articles & essays (2012),
The Riptide Ultra-Glide (2013),
Tropical Warning: An Original Story and Other Debris (2013)
Tiger Shrimp Tango (2014),
Shark Skin Suite (2015),
Coconut Cowboy (January 26, 2016).
