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Skinny Dip
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Carl Hiaasen writes novels about Florida. I won't get started about Florida - the ex-President, governor, theme parks, retirees.... Mr. Hiaasen takes on subjects like these and others in all of his books. His method is to take an evil scoundrel who's made a fortune by raping the wildlife and wildlands of Florida, pin them down and gut them (figuratively or, sometimes, literally). In Skinny Dip, the culprits are a philandering husband who tries to murder his wife by throwing her off the deck of a cruise ship and a crooked mega-farmer who's polluting the Everglades with run-off from his agricultural empire.
Skinny Dip is an entertaining read, though there's some recycling from past novels. Skink, the former governor of Florida who lives in the Everglades, makes a couple of nominal appearances. And there's a goon (though with a twist this time) with a bullet in his anus, who's a throwback to the villain in Double Whammy who walks around with the head of a dead pit bull attached to his arm.
This isn't the best Carl Hiaasen novel I've read, but there was enough here to keep me engaged.
Skinny Dip is an entertaining read, though there's some recycling from past novels. Skink, the former governor of Florida who lives in the Everglades, makes a couple of nominal appearances. And there's a goon (though with a twist this time) with a bullet in his anus, who's a throwback to the villain in Double Whammy who walks around with the head of a dead pit bull attached to his arm.
This isn't the best Carl Hiaasen novel I've read, but there was enough here to keep me engaged.
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