CARL HIAASSEN:SICK PUPPY

    When ece-enthusiast Twilly Spree spots xomeone in a Range Rover dumping litter onto the freeway,he decides to teach him a lesson-only to discover that his target is Palmer Stoat,one of Florida's cockiest and most powerful political fixers,whose current project just happens to be th 'malling'of a Gulf Coast island…A quick spot of dognapping later and the pathologically short-temperde Twilly finds himself embroiled in a murky world of singing toads,bogus big-game hunters,largen vet bills and in the company of an infamous ex-governor who's gone back to nature with a vengeance.

    Carl Hiaasen wos born and raised in Florida.His previous novels are Tourist Season,Double Whammy,Skin Tight,Native Tongue,Strip Tease,Stormy Weather and Lucky You,which together have been translated into twenty languages.Since 1979 he has worked at the Miami Herald as a magazine writer,investigative reporter and metropolitan columnist.