Skinny Dip
Ratings24
Average rating3.8
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Ratings24
Average rating3.8
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Take a hilarious ride through the warped politics and mayhem of the human environment, and the human heart, in this "screwball delight so full of bright, deft, beautifully honed humor.... You'd follow [Hiaasen] anywhere." —The New York Times Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn’t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way–doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife doesn’t die in the fall. Clinging blindly to a bale of Jamaican pot, Joey Perrone is plucked from the ocean by former cop and current loner Mick Stranahan. Instead of rushing to the police and reporting her husband’s crime, Joey decides to stay dead and (with Mick’s help) screw with Chaz until he screws himself. As Joey haunts and taunts her homicidal husband, as Chaz’s cold-blooded cohorts in pollution grow uneasy about his ineptitude and increasingly erratic behavior, as Mick Stranahan discovers that six failed marriages and years of island solitude haven’t killed the reckless romantic in him, we’re taken on a full-throttle, pure Hiaasen ride.
Series
5 primary booksSkink is a 6-book series with 6 primary works first released in 1987 with contributions by Carl Hiaasen.
Series
2 primary booksMick Stranahan is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1989 with contributions by Carl Hiaasen.
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Carl Hiaasen has written another South Florida novel of oddballs, outcasts, and warped behavior. Chaz throws his wife Joey overboard on their second honeymoon cruise. Joey survives, thanks to a bale of Jamaica's finest, and gets even. A fun read, as usual.
Published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf.
Back to fun, light audiobooks for my long runs. This was enjoyable and pretty much exactly what I wanted from it.
This book was all charm and I loved almost everything about it. The ending was meh for me, but it wasn't upsetting or disappointing, and I certainly didn't throw it across the room. It was a little quiet. When you read it, you'll think I'm mad. But it was the pacing that was quiet when the entire novel had a frenetic energy that was infectious. I'd still recommend it and will read others.
