Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen see more by Carl Hiaasen Studio Warner BooksLabel Warner Books

Closer Look List Price: £4.99 From: Warner Books From: Warner Books Salesrank: 2022705 Released: 2002-01 You Save: £ (%)! Lowest New Price: Click Here  Pages: 384 Format: Mass Market Paperback Customer Rating: Also Shop International: (Not all items available internationally)          Customer Reviews: Great Goofy Grifter Gags South Florida has been a national stereotype of corruption since developers began selling underwater real estate in swamps at premium prices in the 1920s to out-of-state "investors." It's been all downhill in the national psyche since then. Is it any wonder that many question the Presidential election results for their honesty in 2000? Carl Hiaasen is one of our great comic crime writers, and Skin Tight is one of his best efforts. I missed the book when it first came out, but wanted to know more about Mick Stranahan after reading Skinny Dip (which I also loved). Mick Stranahan is retired from the state police . . . because he was too good at his job. A crooked judge ended up dead, and the judge's friends didn't like that. The reverberations from that event continue in Skin Tight. Mick spends his days with a little fishing and a little lazing in the sun in his stilt house built over the water. That idyllic existence is disturbed when someone sends a hit man to take him out. Being totally unprepared, Mick defends himself as best he can (in a way you'll never forget). Soon another hit man is on his way who presents a different challenge. Dead bodies are soon piling up on the beaches in south Florida, and his friends in police work keep asking him what he knows. Actually, he doesn't know very much at first. Gradually, he finds out that he's been set up to take a fall by a crooked witness in an investigation he ran four years earlier into the disappearance of a young woman after her plastic surgery. Before he's done, Mick finds out who's after him . . . and closes up that old wound. In the process, there's more comic mayhem than you can imagine. You will probably find Chemo to be one of the best comic villains since "Jaws" in the James Bond movies. If you dislike phonies, you will find several to dislike in the story . . . and each will get their comeuppance in deliciously appropriate ways. If you enjoy Mick, be sure to read Skinny Dip as well. Related Categories: >> >>Books >>Subjects >>Crime, Thrillers & Mystery >>Authors, A-Z >>H >>Hiaasen, Carl