Only in America could the guest of honor at a bachelor party become a mortal threat to Big Stoney and Big Government. Their paths - tangled before they even know it - come together in a novel that continues the hilarious and scathing muckraking tradition that Carl Hiaasen has so mercilessly made his own. It is he, crazed and determined, who prowls the swath of the storm and forever changes the lives of Max, Bonnie, Edie, and the others. But there's also a man called Skink who has devoted his very strange existence to saving Florida from the kinds of people blown in by the hurricane. The only clue to his whereabouts: a runaway monkey. Over Bonnie's objections, Max eagerly sets out through the rubble, debris, and mayhem - and promptly vanishes. Armed with a video camera, the ambitious young advertising executive can't wait to show his hurricane tapes to his buddies back in New York. It is Max's fateful decision to abort their Disney World honeymoon and race to Dade County to see the terrible devastation.
When a ferocious hurricane rips through Southern Florida, the con artists and carpetbaggers waste no time swarming over the disaster area.Īmong the predators are Edie Marsh, an entrepreneurial young woman whose scheme to sleep with a Palm Beach Kennedy has fizzled, freeing her to concoct a colossal insurance rip-off Lester Maddox Parsons, a murderous ex-con whose violent encounter with a game warden has left him with the fitting nickname of "Snapper" and Avila, a crooked building inspector-turned-roofer, who dabbles somewhat unsuccessfully in the occult.Ĭaught in the middle are Max and Bonnie Lamb, newlyweds torn in wildly different directions by the storm. in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of anti-development fanatics and a very, hungry crocodile. Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy alligator lodged in his throat.
The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami Beach. The set is 40% off the individual retail price of the audiobook. This collection contains three classic Hiaasen titles.
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