Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the
Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer.
There’s a logical (HIAASENIAN) explanation for that, but not for how
and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the
boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if
he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly
Health Inspector gig (it’s not called the roach patrol for nothing).
But first—this being HIAASEN COUNTRY—Yancy must negotiate an
obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even
more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a
hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm;
two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian
voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto
death by her peculiar charms; Yancy’s new true love, a kinky
coroner; and the eponymous bad MONKEY, who with hilarious aplomb earns
his place among Carl HIAASEN’s greatest characters.Here is Hiaasen
doing what he does better than anyone else: spinning a tale at once
fiercely pointed and wickedly funny in which the greedy, the corrupt,
and the degraders of what’s left of pristine Florida—now, of the
Bahamas as well—get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious,
diabolically entertaining fashion.
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