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Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead. Mick is sure of this, because he just had to dispatch a pistol-packing intruder with the help of a stuffed marlin head. But who would want to hurt a former Florida state investigator? The answer is plenty of people-as Stranahan soon finds himself acquainted with a litter of nefarious players, including a hit man whose skin problems could fill a comprehensive (if bizarre) medical textbook, a lawyer of questionable repute who advertises on billboards, and a TV show host whose taste for sensationalism is exceeded only by his vanity. The whole thing gets downright harrowing for the ex-cop in one of Hiaasen's most breathtaking, madcap romps ever-where even a plastic surgeon with extremely shaky hands waits to wring Stranahan's neck.

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Carl Hiaasen (pronounced "hiya-sun") was born and raised in South Florida and presently lives in Tavernier, smack in the middle of the Florida Keys. He attended Emory University and was graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Florida at Gainesville in 1974. Hiaasen began his journalism career writing weird public interest stories ("Garbageman for a day") at Cocoa Today (now the Melbourne-based Florida Today). He joined the Miami Herald in 1976, and since then has been a reporter for their general assignment desk, Sunday magazine and investigative team. As part of The Miami Herald's investigative team, Hiaasen has worked on projects exposing dangerous doctors in Florida, land corruption in the Florida Keys, and drug smuggling in the Bahamas and Key West. He is currently Metro columnist for the paper where his award-winning columns on rapacious development, egregious business practices, and corrupt politicians have helped clarify issues for the Florida citizenry. Carl Hiaasen turned his hand to fiction in the early eighties. His first novel, Tourist Season,was published in 1986 and named "one of the ten best destination reads of all time" by GQ Magazine. He is the author of five other best-selling novels, Double Whammy, Skin Tight, Native Tongue, Strip Tease and Stormy Weather. Louise Bernikow, writing in Cosmopolitan, calls Hiaasen's fiction "unbelievably funny -- tears-running-down-your-cheeks funny in spite of some pretty weighty themes like the destruction of the environment and the cut-throat ways of developers." Tony Hillerman calls Hiaasen "the Mark Twain of the crime novel." And Donald Westlake says "Hiaasen is so good he ought to be illegal." Hiaasen is also a songwriter, having co-wrote two songs on Warren Zevon's album. Mutineer (the two songs are Seminole Bingo and Rollweiler Blues). The film Strip Tease, based on Hiaasen's novel, directed by Andrew Bergman starring Demi Moore in pasties and Burt Reynolds in a hairpiece, was a recent major motion picture.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing (April 12, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0446695696
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0446695695
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.13 x 8 inches

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Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida, where he still lives. He is a prize-winning journalist with a regular column in the Miami Herald and many articles in varied magazines. He started writing crime fiction in the early 1980s and has recently branched out into children's books; he has also had several works of non-fiction published.

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D. Frey

Early Hiaasen

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2023

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Excellent, somewhat prolix, only as he can, Carl Hiaasen South Florida black humor. Strongly recommended as a Hiaasen book without the Skink.

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Jack Money

Awesomely fun

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A great read from a sound journalist that kept me on the edge of my seat and giggling all the way through.

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Patto

Indestructible ex-investigator outfoxes hit men in Florida

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2013

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Mick Stranahan has retired very early as an investigator for the State Attorney's office due to some unfortunate incidents in his career. He hasn't had an easy life personally or professionally. He's killed five men, all of them job-related, and had five wives, all of them cocktail waitresses.

When the story opens, somebody's trying to kill Mick. He has no idea why, and it's happened so often before that Mick knows how to deal with it. But the hit man from New Jersey is just the beginning. The local hit man is more persistent.

The cast of characters includes a grossly incompetent plastic surgeon; an offensive TV personality who investigates scandals; a crafty Cuban homicide cop who watches out for Mick; a sleazy ambulance-chaser lawyer who's married to Mick's sister; some flagrantly corrupt politicians and crooked cops; the scariest-looking hit man you've ever seen; and the meanest ex-wife you've ever met (one of Mick's).

The reader can look forward to lots of bloodshed. There are gory accidents involving machinery and gruesome scenes involving fish. And you'd be wise not to snack while reading the graphic description of a liposuction.

The humor is so intensely wacky that it's almost slapstick. And at the heart of the hot action is a cold murder case that Mick gets very interested in solving. There's something for everyone in this zany book - mystery, romance (however fleeting), lots of Florida sunshine and a bit of fish lore, plus nudity and violence.

Recommended for readers who just want to have fun.

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Hiaasen entertains

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I actually chuckled out loud a couple of times in the opening pages. Admittedly, it got a little bloody after that, but oddly enough, continued to be humorous. If you've ever lived in Florida, it will be even funnier to you. Things happen in Florida that could only happen in Florida. I really like the Stranahan character.

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Same story, different characters (some; some are the same).

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Another Mick Stranahan story from the master of South Florida/Sex/Murder/Comedies, Carl Hiassen. This one with a different cast of characters than in the other Stranahan story I've read (though I'm only five books into Hiassen world, so who knows?).

If you appreciate these books for what they are, this is comedic diversion at a very good level. A hard bitten law enforcement (former) protagonist, young bunny, and thinking woman for adult female companionship figure into a murder mystery. The murder is prospective and the target is Stranahan, targeted because of his work on a long ago missing person case that threatens to expose the king of South Florida plastic surgery as a butchering fraud. Death by swordfish and a hungry hand eating barracuda also figure into the story. So does Geraldo Rivera, with his named changed, but an obvious take-off. The only downside is an ending that is forced to some extent to take the story to a conclusion (seriously, couldn't the woman who made the expose tape and then lost it just record another copy?). But again, this works for light escapist reading.

Great for plane rides and vacations, which is where I do most of my Hiassen reading.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2020

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If you like reading a book with such outrageous humor that you find yourself just laughing out loud because you can't help it, this one is for you.
A has-been lawman living large on his disability pay has a stilt house in the shallows south of Miami. He isn't bothering anyone, and few know of his existence. He is happy, sort of, living a solitary life after four broken marriages.
Along come a long series of unlikely but vivid characters to disturb his peace. A nineteen-year-old girl who is both spectacularly beautiful and spectacularly naked. A seven-foot-tall human gargoyle who moonlights from his job as a bouncer to be a contract killer. A nasty nasty and utterly incompetent plastic surgeon. A hungry barracuda. An egomaniacal TV star and his stone-cold professional producer.
It is a lot funnier than this sounds.
Highest possible recommendation.

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GOOD STUFF

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2022

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This book had a very good and chaotic storyline. There was an amazing group of colorful characters most of whom had no moral compass. It was a delight to read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 6, 2022

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Just discovered this author and have read 4 of his books thus far. Extremely interesting plot and characters!! I hope I’ll find another book with this wacky (but appealing) protagonist.

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delft mama

Having read Bad Monkey which is far superior

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 14, 2014

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Having read Bad Monkey which is far superior, I started on his back catalogue. Unfortunately this only gets 3 stars, his style is not as assured and well developed and the pacing needs to be more evenly spread. It really drags for the first 200 pages and then there is a race in the last 50 to tie up lose ends. The humour is not as frequent as well. Plus the lead character Mick needed more development, not as likeable as Andrew Yancy of Bad Monkey. Am going on to Stormy Weather next.

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Martina Mcdonagh

The Book arrived in excellent condition - good as new

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 30, 2015

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The Book arrived in excellent condition - good as new. Great price & very speedy delivery. What more can you ask for ?!!
Another fantastic Carl Hiaasen novel, as per usual. I have read loads of them already - I'm a HUGE Fan !! (-:

D. W. Miller

A comic without the pictures

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 30, 2004

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There is an art in writing this sort of stuff and at some levels it entertains.
The book is a pacey and amusing read. The characters although comic-like are drawn quite well and you develop clear pictures of the action as you rush though the text. Something you finish in hours rather than days.
I would recommend Carl Hiassen's books as ideal holiday reading or perhaps used as an interval between serious literature to help the brain recuperate.

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Frances L Jackson

A most unusual book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 3, 2019

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I am enjoying this book very much. It is full of Miami type satire and many interesting characters.

Jessica CC

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 23, 2015

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Another amazing Hiaasen novel, highly recommended

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