Picked up from the friends of the library book sale shelves to read and release.

Amazon Editorial Review

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Witty...colorful...entertaining." - New York Times Book Review

JoLayne Lucks lives in a town infamous for its suspicious miracles, but she's still elated when her lottery numbers finally pay off big-$28 million, to be exact. And she has great plans for her fortune: to save a rare piece of Florida paradise from the bulldozers. Only one problem: There's another winning Lotto ticket, and the people who've got it just never learned how to share. When the two militia wannabes swipe JoLayne's ticket, she enlists an off-the-rails newspaperman to help her track down the trigger-happy creeps and their bewildered hostage, a Hooters waitress. Getting rich quick is never easy...

this one has been pulled from the TBR pile after a year or so on it. I wish that I had read it sooner. Like all of Carl Hiaasen's books it pokes fun at different types of people found in Florida. This time around it's the rednecks and tourists. Great black humor, some references seemed a little outdated as the book was originally written in 1997. I would have loved to see Chub and Bode's reactions to President Obama ;P

This book had me giggling out loud while reading it on public transportation. always a sign of a well written story

left in the little free library