Book description
A hilarious and scathing novel from the author of Squeeze Me about a crazed and determined man who has devoted his strange existence to saving southern Florida from con artists and carpetbaggers after a hurricane hits.
'Hysterically funny.... Hiaasen at his satirical best' - USA Today
When a ferocious hurricane…
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1 author picked Stormy Weather as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Carl Hiaasen’s Florida-set books are dark, clever, and ever so funny, with his perfectly drawn characters being eccentric, shady as hell, or just plain whack-a-doodle.
Sometimes all three at the same time. Most of his books are standalones but his one recurring character, the sidekick to lots of the books’ protagonists, is Clinton Tyree, the ex-governor of Florida. Tyree was one of the few honest men to hold that office, until one day, sick of the corruption, he simply vanished into the Everglades.
He appeared later as Skink, a one-eyed man at one with nature who dined on roadkill and…
From M.W.'s list on sidekicks in crime fiction.
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