Stormy Weather
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When a ferocious hurricane rips through Southern Florida, the con artists and carpetbaggers waste no time swarming over the disaster area.
Among the predators are Edie Marsh, an entrepreneurial young woman whose scheme to sleep with a Palm Beach Kennedy has fizzled, freeing her to concoct a colossal insurance rip-off; Lester Maddox Parsons, a murderous ex-con whose violent encounter with a game warden has left him with the fitting nickname of "Snapper"; and Avila, a crooked building inspector-turned-roofer, who dabbles somewhat unsuccessfully in the occult.
Caught in the middle are Max and Bonnie Lamb, newlyweds torn in wildly different directions by the storm. It is Max's fateful decision to abort their Disney World honeymoon and race to Dade County to see the terrible devastation. Armed with a video camera, the ambitious young advertising executive can't wait to show his hurricane tapes to his buddies back in New York. Over Bonnie's objections, Max eagerly sets out through the rubble, debris, and mayhem -- and promptly vanishes. The only clue to his whereabouts: a runaway monkey. But there's also a man called Skink who has devoted his very strange existence to saving Florida from the kinds of people blown in by the hurricane. It is he, crazed and determined, who prowls the swath of the storm and forever changes the lives of Max, Bonnie, Edie, and the others.
Their paths -- tangled before they even know it -- come together in a novel that continues the hilarious and scathing muckraking tradition that Carl Hiaasen has so mercilessly made his own. In Stormy Weather, there is no calm eye.
Placing this in my Warm & Sunny Book Box.
Journal Entry 2 by kz4ufo at The "Warm & Sunny" Book Box in -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Saturday, May 15, 2004
Release planned for Tuesday, June 01, 2004 at The "Warm & Sunny" Book Box in Bookbox, postal release USA.
Removed from "The Warm & Sunny Bookbox."
Just laughed my self silly ... great story. I love Carl Hiaasen.
Journal Entry 5 by Pyan at RABCK to fellow Bookcrossing member in RABCK, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Released 19 yrs ago (1/14/2005 UTC) at RABCK to fellow Bookcrossing member in RABCK, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases
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RELEASE NOTES: Sending to MarciNYC ... enjoy!
It's here and joining myriad others on Mt TBR. I am trying to introduce MisterNYC to Hiaasen because I think he'd really enjoy his writing, but he hasn't bitten yet. *sigh*
Reading this again reminded me just how much I like Hiaasen, but this isn't one of my favourites. (That honour belongs jointly to "Tourist Season" and "Native Tongue" but "Double Whammy" gets an honourable mention as well!)
Released 19 yrs ago (4/20/2005 UTC) at
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Heading out in a box to help stock an OBCZ.
Heading out in a box to help stock an OBCZ.
The LOVELY MarciNYC sent this in a BIG box of books for the bookcrossing zone! How wonderful! Thanks!
