Nature Girl

Carl Hiaasen

Nov 2006 · Sold by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

About this ebook

Passionate and willful Honey Santana is taking rude, gullible telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less than enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie Fonda, into the mangroves of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in humility. What Honey doesn’t know is that she’s being followed by her obsessed former employer, Piejack, and her still-smitten ex-husband, Perry, with their protective and wise-beyond-his-years twelve-year-old son, Fry. And when they all arrive on Dismal Key, they don’t know the island is occupied by Sammy Tigertail, a failed alligator wrestler trying like hell to be left alone despite the Florida State coed clinging to his side. South Florida has never been quite so hilarious as it is in this outrageous tale of one woman’s single-handed quest to eradicate greed and enforce civility in her corner of the Sunshine State.

Ratings and reviews

"Sick Puppy" is not only a story of greedy politicians and builders who are destroying Florida's natural beauty, it's a story packed with colorful characters and wacky incidents. Twilly Spree is a wealthy environmentalist who spots a man throwing his grabage out of his car window onto the highway. Twilly follows the car as more and more garbage is thrown from the man's window. When the man parks his convertable and enters a restaurant, Spree gets a garbage truck and empties it into the man's car. When this doesn't teach the man a lesson, Twilly escalates his tactics. He learns that the man is a lobbyest and in the midst of a project to tear down most of the trees on a Florida island, let the animals die and build a golf course. This will benefit a builder who contributed to the governor's election campaign. Twilly sets up a plan to stop the project and preserve the island. The characters are richly drawn and easy to imagine as was the unusual situations in which they get themselves into. Hiassen plays with the reader and gives an amusing tale that is vastly entertaining, resulting in a good murder mystery mixed with humor.

Carl Hiaasen has done it again!!! I can never get enough of his plot twists!

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About the author

Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the bestsellers Squeeze Me, Razor Girl, Bad Monkey, Star Island, Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, Lucky You, and Stormy Weather, and six bestselling children’s books, Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp, Skink, and Squirm. His most recent work of nonfiction is Dance of the Reptiles, a collection of his columns from the Miami Herald.