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Bad Monkey
2013
First Published
3.75
Average Rating
400
Number of Pages

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Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of pristine land in Florida—now, in the Bahamas too—get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion. Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police—has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events—from the Keys to Miami to a Bahamian out island—with a crew of equally ever-surprising characters, including: the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; an avariciously idiotic real estate developer; a voodoo witch whose lovers are blinded-unto-death by her particularly peculiar charms; Yancy's new love, a kinky medical examiner; and the eponymous Bad Monkey, who earns his place among Hiaasen's greatest characters with hilariously wicked aplomb.

Avg Rating
3.75
Number of Ratings
51,481
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
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Author

Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen
Author · 34 books
Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. After graduating from the University of Florida, he joined the Miami Herald as a general assignment reporter and went on to work for the newspaper’s weekly magazine and prize-winning investigations team. As a journalist and author, Carl has spent most of his life advocating for the protection of the Florida Everglades. He and his family live in southern Florida.
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