I read this book several years ago, so I don't have a very clear memory of it. I do remember that I was really impressed with Hiaasen's books and I think the reviewer who claims reading his work is "a bit like being on a terrifyingly good roller-coaster" has got it right. They books I have read before have all been very funny; perhaps they could be described as savagely funny. They also reflect a side of Florida that is very different from the one most people think of.

This book involves the apparent theft of the last two blue-tongued voles from a Florida theme park and PR man Joe Winder's mistake in asking questions about it. This leads him to hide out in the Everglades with some very strange companions.

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Posted to arturogrande today!

Very kindly sent to me by Librarie in Norway - she saw it was on my wishlist and offered it to me.

Thanks very much Librarie - and the Norwegian postcard was lovely! It was fabulous to come home after a hard day at work and open a package to find not only a book I had wanted to read for a long time, but also a picture of the most beautiful scenery.

I hope you don't have TOO long a wait for the book I sent you:)

Fantastic - this is classic Hiaasen. There is a crusading and idealistic journalist who has none the less got a dark side, a morally bankrupt theme park boss trying hard to hide his former Mob connections, a slimy PR man and a former Governor of Florida turned wild man of the Everglades.
Hiaasen is amazingly inventive and darkly funny - and his recurring use of environmental themes shows he is a man with a message, too.

Thanks so much, Librarie, for sending me this. It's much appreciated.

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