Johnny Vegas (Character)
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Johnny Vegas is a character in several of Tim Dorsey's novels. Despite being young, handsome, and moderately wealthy, he is known (at least through the narrative) as "The Accidental Virgin". Each time Vegas encounters a willing woman, something happens to ruin the situation. The intervening occurrences are frequently highly improbable or outlandish, such as finding floating corpses while on a speedboat, witnessing an apparent suicide from a bridge, et cetera.
Vegas' character is far from sympathetic, however. He is somewhat stupid, arrogant, vain, sex-obsessed, and has very few morals. Unlike some other recurring peripheral characters (such as Detective Mahoney), Vegas is used almost entirely for comic relief rather than in advancing the plot.
| Tim Dorsey |
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| Novels: 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) |
| Characters: Serge A. Storms - Detective Mahoney - Johnny Vegas |
