Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and
soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in
his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but
not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the
boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he
can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health
Inspector gig (it’s not called the roach patrol for nothing). But
first—this being Hiaasen country—Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course
of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly
unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded
fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two
avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo
witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by
her peculiar charms; Yancy’s new true love, a kinky coroner; and the
eponymous bad monkey, who with hilarious aplomb earns his place among
Carl Hiaasen’s greatest characters.
Here is Hiaasen doing what he does better than anyone else: spinning a tale at once fiercely pointed and wickedly funny in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what’s left of pristine Florida—now, of the Bahamas as well—get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion.
Save the date!!! Carl Hiaasen will be at our Historic Lodo store on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 7:30 pm to discuss and sign his most recent book.
Free numbered tickets for a place in the booksigning line will be handed out at 6:30 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the booksigning is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only.
Here is Hiaasen doing what he does better than anyone else: spinning a tale at once fiercely pointed and wickedly funny in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what’s left of pristine Florida—now, of the Bahamas as well—get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion.
Save the date!!! Carl Hiaasen will be at our Historic Lodo store on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 7:30 pm to discuss and sign his most recent book.
Free numbered tickets for a place in the booksigning line will be handed out at 6:30 pm. Seating for the presentation prior to the booksigning is limited, and available on a first-come, first-served basis to ticketed customers only.
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