Smokeout's bitingly entertaining portrait of a misbehaving Florida state legislature drew raves for both its inventiveness and timeliness, and the Providence Journal declared, "Carl Hiaasen may have an heir apparent." Now, Date takes out after another cherished state institution, and the results are every bit as subversive.
In the "ideal" designed community of Serenity, Florida, pride of the late theme-park king Waldo Whipple, things are far from ideal. The houses are listing, the regulations are onerous, the mayor is lecherous, and the occasional Wild Dominion animal has started turning up dead. Graffiti is sprouting in odd places-"Serenityites Arise!" and "WWWS: What Would Waldo Say?"-and when a reporter begins poking around, he quickly discovers that Waldo's successors have a decidedly different vision for America's Hometown-and if certain people don't stop interfering with it, animals won't be the only things that start turning up dead. . . .
Filled with wicked humor and razor-sharp plotting, Deep Water is delightfully twisted-and maybe more plausible than any of us would like to think.
In the "ideal" designed community of Serenity, Florida, pride of the late theme-park king Waldo Whipple, things are far from ideal. The houses are listing, the regulations are onerous, the mayor is lecherous, and the occasional Wild Dominion animal has started turning up dead. Graffiti is sprouting in odd places-"Serenityites Arise!" and "WWWS: What Would Waldo Say?"-and when a reporter begins poking around, he quickly discovers that Waldo's successors have a decidedly different vision for America's Hometown-and if certain people don't stop interfering with it, animals won't be the only things that start turning up dead. . . .
Filled with wicked humor and razor-sharp plotting, Deep Water is delightfully twisted-and maybe more plausible than any of us would like to think.
