If you’re not laughing by page six, you need a complete checkup. “A delightful romp that is by turns hilarious and moving.” - Library Journal NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A hilarious and scathing novel from the author of Squeeze Me about a crazed and determined man who has devoted his strange existence. by a master of skullduggery in high and low places.” - The Buffalo News But don’t wait until then.” - Orlando Sentinel Hiaasen is himself an accomplished juggler of plot lines. Stormy Weather would be terrific reading during a hurricane, taking your mind off all those oak trees doing the wave outside your window. Even while provoking gales of laughter, it takes dead-aim at despoilers of the environment and the greed-mongers out to make a buck off devastation and destruction. “Another fiercely funny tale in the Hiaasen cannon.

Few writers in the overcrowded crime fiction arena can match Hiaasen’s deft, economical portraits, his ability to click the shutter on a character’s most revealing moments.” - Newsday What you can't anticipate is how much fun there's to be had getting here to there.” - New York Daily News If only you could buy a ticket to Hiaasen's Florida. “Raucous, scathing but never mean-spirited, Stormy Weather goes a long way toward securing Hiaasen's place as America's premier satirist.” - People Everybody gets his just desserts, and you get the delight of reading about it.” - Cosmopolitan A great read.” - The Washington Post Book World “ mordantly hilarious, black-humor thriller.” - The Wall Street Journal Hiaasen at his satirical best.” - USA Today In his sixth novel, less a straightforward thriller than a sprawling slice of life, Hiaasen dexterously resolves his many subplots, uniting the principals in a climactic chase across the swampland-while adding sting to his perpetual theme: the unrelenting depredation of Florida's cultural and natural heritage. Also mobilized are a mob enforcer with a penchant for crucifixions, a voodoo-practicing building inspector and a number of menacing escaped animals. Transforming a suburban sprawl into a lawless frontier, the hurricane puts on a collision course a demented cast of tourists, scam artists and eccentrics: New York ad exec Max Lamb, who decides to spice up his Orlando honeymoon by taking his bride and his camcorder into the teeth of the storm Skink, the swamp-dwelling former Florida governor (last seen in Native Tongue) who kidnaps Max in an effort to teach him to respect the land Edie March, a seductive grifter who hatches a half-baked personal-injury scam with the help of Snapper, a sadistic ex-con and Augustine, the altruistic son of a jailed drug smuggler, who juggles skulls to relax.

Hiaasen's latest madcap romp across southern Florida presents an apocalyptic panorama of the region in the wake of a storm much like Hurricane Andrew.

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