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Hilarious eco-thriller with a revengeful twist.

If you love a wild ride filled with sharp wit and environmental advocacy, "Skinny Dip" offers just that, topped with a generous serving of dark comedy. Hiaasen's talent for crafting quirky characters and satirical plots shines through, making it a great pick if you're in the mood for a story that entertains while subtly nudging you to think about conservation.

  • CWA Silver Dagger Nominee (2005)
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ISBN: 9781101973035
Authors: Carl Hiaasen
Date of Publication: 2016-09-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Related Topics: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Goodreads rating: 3.84
(rated by 46475 readers)

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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
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Hilarious eco-thriller with a revengeful twist.

If you love a wild ride filled with sharp wit and environmental advocacy, "Skinny Dip" offers just that, topped with a generous serving of dark comedy. Hiaasen's talent for crafting quirky characters and satirical plots shines through, making it a great pick if you're in the mood for a story that entertains while subtly nudging you to think about conservation.

  • CWA Silver Dagger Nominee (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.