Native Tongue
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From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. "Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." —New York Times Book Review When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X. Kingsbury and can end only one way....
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This was a hoot. There's no other way to describe it. Hiassen tells a dark, hilarious tale about idiot criminals, corrupt amusement parks, and environmental extremists, and makes all of the larger-than-life characters seem perfectly reasonable when set against one another.
In some ways the book's horribly dated - fax machines! Carbon paper! The death of John Lennon as a recentish event! But in the end they only add to the book's charm.
I enjoyed this off-beat book about crooked developers, bungling crooks, and amusement parks.
