Carl Hiaasen: Stormy Weather (USA 2018) From the Publisher: Carl Hiaasen: Stormy Weather. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781538729571 (July, 2018), 452 p., $9.99.
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Carl Hiaasen: Stormy Weather (USA 2010) From the Publisher: Among the predators are Edie Marsh, an entrepreneurial young woman whose scheme to sleep with a Palm Beach Kennedy has fizzled, freezing 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 name 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. The only person who can help Bonnie's search: a mysterious young man with a tranquilizer gun and a roomful of human skulls. 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. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey. Carl Hiaasen: Stormy Weather. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, ISBN: 9780307767417 (August, 2010), eBook, 2.34 MB (ca. 335 p.), $9.99.
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Carl Hiaasen: Stormy Weather (UK 1997) From the Publisher: Fully nine-tenths of the population emerge unscathed from the hurricane that wrecks Dade County on August 24th. But who the hell cares about them? For everyone else the aftermath of the direct hit - homelessness, looting, devastation, in shore an all-round window of opportunity - is the second gold-rush. The year's hottest scam... Carl Hiaasen: Stormy Weather. Pan Books, ISBN: 0330340948 (February, 1997), 472 p., £4.99.
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Carl Hiaasen: Stormy Weather (USA 1996) From the Publisher: Carl Hiaasen: Stormy Weather. Warner, ISBN: 0446603422 (July, 1996), 384 p., $7.99.
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