Hiaasen has a way of doing awful things to characters, like having a Shriner get tangled up in the tentacles of a Portuguese man-of-war, without making it seem like such a bad thing. This book follows a theme of Hiassen’s, in which the bad guys are planning to bulldoze or pave some tiny remaining unblemished aspect of Florida’s native ecosystem, and the good guys go to astounding lengths to stop them. It’s a pro-ecology book dressed up like a thriller, and like all of Hiassen’s books, it’s tough to put down.
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