The wife, Joey, once a college swimmer, manages to re-orient herself in the air and knife into the water, unharmed. Charles Perrone nonchalantly throws his wife off a cruise ship in the middle of the Gulf Stream. On the opening page of Skinny Dip, Marine biologist Dr. We also meet Augustine, the seemingly lost and shiftless collector and juggler of human heads, who helps Bonnie gain a new perspective on life. Along the way, readers meet a mafia killer seeking revenge because his mother has been killed in the hurricane, a crooked building inspector and the developer who bribed him. Max and Bonnie are soon separated as she becomes increasingly disgusted by his behavior. Max grabs his video camera, hustles Bonnie into the car and drives south to capture the destruction on tape. In Stormy Weather, Bonnie and Max Lamb awaken during their honeymoon at Disney World to learn that Hurricane Andrew is bearing down on Homestead, just south of Miami. They’re blaspheming what was one wild, beautiful, and eternal. Whether they’re breaking building codes or pumping phosphates in the once pristine waters of the Everglades doesn’t matter. While there are plenty of silly scammers, the real bad guys and the genuine target Hiaasen keeps focusing on are developers, builders, farmers, and crooked politicians who destroy the land in order to make obscene amounts of money.

Laugh out loud situations that make the reader think about power, honesty, integrity and the state of the world. A raging anger at the destruction of Florida’s beauty by developers, crooked politicians, rapacious farmers, and other people of no moral or social conscience.Ħ. A cast of gooney and grotesque villainous or saintly characters.Ĥ. An older, somewhat jaded and lost man who saves himself in rescuing the girl.ģ. The two books share some common elements that contribute to many other Hiaasen novels:Ģ. Skink appears in both Stormy Weather and Skinny Dip, but I’ll leave it to the reader to discover where, why, and how. Skink, the foxily crazy former governor of Florida lives in the Everglades dispensing justice and serving as the most delightful dues ex machine in contemporary crime literature. I far as I’ve been able to determine, there’re only s couple of recurring characters in Carl Hiaasen books, but what characters they are.

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