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Hiaasen’s latest is classic: familiar (and fondly remembered) characters, deeply satirical and wickedly funny situations.

Palmer Stoat is a political fixer, a grotesque (but oddly sympathetic) sort of guy who sets up the deal to develop Toad Island yet another bit of Floridian wilderness scheduled to be razed, paved, and golf-coursed. Twilly Spree is an anger-management-school dropout who decides to stop Stoat, and a cast of lunatic developers (including an ex-smuggler with a Barbie fetish and a hit man who wears a snakeskin corset).

Sick Puppy is a joy to read and a must-have for any Hiaasen fan, as well as anyone who has a Labrador Retriever.

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• Amazon (paperback)
• Amazon (hardback)