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Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
Book Number:RC 58649
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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 øf 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
hilarious,
full-throttle, pure Hiaasen ride through the warped politics and mayhem of
the human environment, and the human heart. Strong language, some
descriptions of sex, and some violence. Bestseller. 2004.
This one read at a fast pace, or at least for me it did. I give it a 4.5
out of 5.
Happy reading,
Carla/TexasRed
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