Hiaasen's signature mix of hilariously over-the-top villains, lovable innocents and righteous indignation at what mankind has done to his beloved Florida wilderness is all present in riotous abundance in his latest. -- PW
Warner
June 2005
Featuring: Chaz Perrone; Joey Perrone; Mick Stranahan
368 pages ISBN: 0446695564 Trade Size (reprint) Add to Wish List
Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the
world who doesn’t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He
might also be the only one who went into biology just to
make a killing, and now he’s found a way–doctoring water
samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue
illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades.
When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his
scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the
night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife
doesn’t die in the fall.
Clinging blindly to a bale of Jamaican pot, Joey Perrone is
plucked from the ocean by former cop and current loner Mick
Stranahan. Instead of rushing to the police and reporting
her husband’s crime, Joey decides to stay dead and (with
Mick’s help) screw with Chaz until he screws himself.
As Joey haunts and taunts her homicidal husband, as Chaz’s
cold-blooded cohorts in pollution grow uneasy about his
ineptitude and increasingly erratic behavior, as Mick
Stranahan discovers that six failed marriages and years of
island solitude haven’t killed the reckless romantic in him,
we’re taken on a hilarious, full-throttle, pure Hiaasen ride
through the warped politics and mayhem of the human
environment, and the human heart.
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