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The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder, in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of fanatics and a very hungry crocodile.

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The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder, in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of fanatics and a very hungry crocodile.

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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 (May 9, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0446695718
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0446695718
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 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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The Angry Aardvark

I hope this guy is still writing!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 19, 2023

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It as hard to catch the rhythm for about 100 pages but you can tell it comes from his heart.

I have read several of his more recent works and it’s still evident that he cares.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2022

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Carl Hiaasen's absurdist eco-novel was a fun and crazy Floridian adventure. A writer turned private eye gets himself embroiled in a mysterious terrorist plot that is just crazy enough to work. The story is laugh out loud funny at times. While, the antagonist was obvious as well as their motives, the story was still well-developed and insane. Overall, Hiaasen does what he does best, makes me laugh and feel like I'm in Florida.

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Hiassen's first book, and one of his strongest

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2001

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I've been reading Carl Hiassen's work for years, having jumped in around the middle, with "Native Tongue," "Skin Tight" and "Striptease." I've more recently been working my way through the rest of his catalog, including "Stormy Weather" and "Double Whammy," with his two latest books in hardback waiting on my to-be-read shelf.
But years after the liner notes for a Jimmy Buffett song ("The Ballad of Skip Wiley and Skeet" off his "Barometer Soup" album) made me go look for this Hiassen's guy's works in a book store, I'm finally getting around to "Tourist Season," the first novel Hiassen wrote, featuring rogue newspaper columnist Skip Wiley.
It's said that you spend your entire life writing your first novel, as you inevitably put pretty much all the good stuff in that one. Whatever the state of your craft, it's where your ideas, your good bits, your passion all gets poured into. While I've enjoyed other Hiassen books more (notably "Native Tongue" and "Skin Tight"), this certainly seems to be true for "Tourist Season." While all of his books have an overt current of rage directed at developers, destructive big business and endemic corruption, he always makes sure to leaven that with humor, a little zaniness, and some sweetness. Not here.
Sure, there's some amusing bits, a lot of them, really, but Hiassen's subsequent work has never been this dark, his rage never so undiminished. While all of his books barrel towards their climax, this is the first one I've read in which it's hard to see how there could be a happy ending, where the bad guys aren't REALLY bad and where it doesn't all seem like cosmic justice on the last page. I won't spoil the ending, but by midway through the book, it's clear that with the heaping handfuls of moral ambiguity mixed in, it's hard to have anything better than a bittersweet ending.
In a nutshell, Miami newspaper columnist Skip Wiley has had enough. Enough of the influx of Yankees to Florida and the concomitant woes of greed, development and reckless destruction of the environment. Especially the latter. When Skip Wiley goes missing, and a new terrorist organization, the Nights of December, starts targeting the tourist industry in South Florida (starting by shoving a rubber alligator down a man's throat and then putting his dead body inside his luggage), Skip's editor calls a former reporter turned private investigator to track him down.
Hiassen almost certainly does not advocate terrorism, murder and kidnap, but the cause is clearly near and dear to him, and he argues the Nights' cause eloquently. That makes their extremism tragic, and the possible endings all troubling.
A solid novel, and one of Hiassen's best. While all of his novels will make you laugh, and keep you turning the pages, anxious to see what the next twist in the roller-coaster ride will be, "Tourist Season" will make you think, too.
Definitely recommended for any of his existent fans, as well as fans of Dave Barry or Elmore Leonard.

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Donnee

Great point, great story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2023

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Carl Hiaasen tells a great story of a crazy, zealous group of people who are vigilantes trying to stop the loss of nature due to commercial development. It is a fun read while also telling a sad truth.

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Richard Carlson

Insane but Fun

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 2, 2022

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Once you accept the deliciously ridiculous motive of the anti-hero and central character, it’s a fun read. The characters are either wildly stereotypical or the reverse. It really needs to become a movie. Several of the scenes are so wondrously bizarre that only a movie could do them justice.

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R. D. Cartwright

Ambiguous Bad Guys

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 26, 2014

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Carl Hiaasen's books tend to follow a formula. That's not necessarily a bad thing; Clive Cussler has his successful formula, and uses it (as Hiaasen does his) to write good, suspenseful books. Heck, most of Dickens' books are somewhat formulaic. In Tourist Season, Hiaasen tweaks his formula slightly. As usual, the protagonist is someone (once again a failed reporter) forced into being a private detective by circumstance. There's the femme fatale with whom our hero is romantically involved against his better judgement, who proves that his better judgement was correct. There's the world-weary cop - the returning character Garcia. All of these are well-done variations of Hiaasen standard characters.

But the main character in all of Carl Hiaasen books is the same. The main character is always Florida, lush, beautiful, Florida. Home to amazing wildlife and horrid humans intent on raping the land for personal gain. Hiaasen usually pits his heroes against these land speculators or other corrupt characters for which his home state is famous. This time is different, as the villains are a group of Eco-terrorists trying to scare people away from further developing South Florida through a series of dramatic murders of tourists and snowbirds. The motives of these villains are understandable, and ones with whom the author is sympathetic. Skip Wiley, the leader of the Eco-terrorists, even seems patterned after the author himself. They are not the usual grasping, money-obsessed grifters that Hiaasen portrays so brilliantly in other books. They have worthy goals. They are limited by their obsessions to the point of insanity.

Hiaasen dispatches his villains to their deaths in his usual brilliantly ironic fashion, but with less glee than usual. The final scene is both satisfying and sad, and all you can do is hope that the eagle decides to fly.

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Inta

Great read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2023

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Never read a book by Carl Hiaasen that I didn't thoroughly enjoy.

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Deliver fast

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2022

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A little pricy for an online paperback.

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WP

Funny and witty, and it has crime

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 24, 2015

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I started buying Hiaasen books from charity shops because these are the books that inspired Christopher Brookmyre. And i can totally see it. It's funny and witty, and it has crime. I couldn't like this book as much as any Brookmyre, though. And that's because it's American. If the spellings hadn't've annoyed me, the references-i-don't-get would have. Also, Brookmyre's characters are ten times better. I cared for no one in the book. But still enjoyable overall nonetheless.

Andy

Very tatty

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 14, 2022

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Great read as always from Carl Hiaasen, always entertains. Pity about the condition of the book though, totally unacceptable for the price paid.

PAUL MORGAN

Enjoyable read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 10, 2021

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A new writer for me, an enjoyable read combining wacky characters, black humour and environmental issues in Florida. Now on my 4th book by Carl Hiaasen and have not been disappointed yet.

Mr. Bryn Jones

WHACKILY ENJOYABLE

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 12, 2018

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Pleasingly whacky, the American humour translates well.

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Pn Watts

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 2, 2018

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