The crazy, effervescent characters from Dave Warner's Exxxpresso finally get an encore in Double Exxxpresso.

Ex-con Rick Boski and his sexy and duplicitous partner Zeen have made good on their dream of running a prison-themed café and import business in downtown Perth.

But when former prison chaplain Father Paul Monaghan dips into the parish funds to bet on a 'sure thing' racehorse, Rick and Zeen need to call on their old skills to keep the good father, and themselves, out of real jail.

Double Exxxpresso is screwball crime-capering at its most exxxpressive as Rick and Zeen dodge a vicious Gold Coast criminal, an ambitious and dogged gaming detective, and a less than honest leviathan bookmaker. It's an explosive brew of peril, friendship and-most of all-fun.

'If you're looking for a book which will make you grip the pages tightly and stay up all night to get to the fusillade of surprises on the very last page, this is it.'

'At last a touch of Carl Hiaasen's crazy brilliance in Australia.'