{"title":"Carl Hiaasen","description":"CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the bestsellers Squeeze Me, Razor Girl, Star Island, Nature Girl, Skinny Dip, Sick Puppy, and Lucky You, and seven bestselling children's books, Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp, Skink, and Squirm. His novel, BAD MONKEY, was recently adapted into a hit series on Apple TV+ starring Vince Vaughn.","products":[{"product_id":"fever-beach-hardcover","title":"Fever Beach - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnother instant classic from Carl Hiaasen--laugh-out-loud funny, tackling the current chaotic and polarized American culture (following in the path of \u003ci\u003eSqueeze Me\u003c\/i\u003e), with two wonderful Hiaasen heroes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The afternoon of September first, dishwater-gray and rainy, a man named Dale Figgo picked up a hitchhiker on Gus Grissom Boulevard in Tangelo Shores, Florida. The hitchhiker, who reminded Figgo of Danny DeVito, asked for a lift to the interstate. Figgo said he'd take him there after finishing an errand.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThus begins \u003ci\u003eFever Beach, \u003c\/i\u003ewith an errand that leads--in pure Hiaasen-style--into the depths of Florida at its most Floridian: a sun-soaked bastion of right-wing extremism, white power, greed, and corruption. Figgo, it turns out, is the only hate-monger ever to be kicked out of the Proud Boys for being too dumb and incompetent. On January 6, 2021 he thought he was defacing a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, but he wound up spreading feces all over a statue of James Zacharia George, a Civil War Confederate war leader. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFiggo's already messy life is about to get more complicated, thanks to two formidable adversaries. Viva Morales is a newly transplanted Floridian, a clever woman recently taken to the cleaners by her ex-husband, now working at the Mink Foundation, a supposedly philanthropic organization, and renting a room in Figgo's apartment because there's no place else she can afford. Twilly Spree has an anger management problem, especially when it comes to those who deface the environment, and way too many inherited millions of dollars. He's living alone a year after his dog died, two years after he sank a city councilman's party barge, and three years after his divorce. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eViva and Twilly are plunged into a mystery--involving dark money and darker motives--they are determined to solve, and become entangled in a world populated by some of Hiaasen's most outrageous characters: Claude and Electra Mink--billionaire philanthropists with way too much plastic surgery and a secret right-wing agenda--and Congressman Clure Boyette--who dreams of being Florida's (and maybe America's) most important politician. The only things standing in his way are his love for hookers and young girls, and his total lack of intelligence. We meet Noel Kristianson--a Scandinavian agnostic injured when Figgo thinks he's a Jewish threat to humanity and runs him over with his car; Jonas Onus--Figgo's partner in white power idiocy; and many, many more. Hiaasen ties them all together and delivers them to their appropriate fates, in his wildest and most entertaining novel to date.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101151826143,"sku":"9780593320945","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6OWTWGPf1B9780593320945.webp?v=1781068360"},{"product_id":"fever-beach-paperback","title":"Fever Beach - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSqueeze Me\u003c\/i\u003e comes a wildly entertaining Florida caper--a razor-sharp send-up of modern American life, packed with misfits and mayhem. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"No satirist arrived at our dystopian moment better prepared than Carl Hiaasen.\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e --\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[Carl Hiaasen's] reality with a side of escapism is a blessing for our fragile minds at this time.\" --Samantha Irby in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome to \u003ci\u003eFever Beach\u003c\/i\u003e, where the sun blazes, the politics are unhinged, and the characters are as volatile as a summer storm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDale Figgo is a half-baked crusader with the rare distinction of being kicked out of the Proud Boys--for being too dumb. His latest bad decision? Picking up a hitchhiker on a rainy afternoon while running an errand. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat errand sets off a chain reaction involving Viva Morales, a clever, resilient newcomer trying to rebuild her life post-divorce. She's renting a room in Figgo's apartment and working at the Mink Foundation--a philanthropic front with something far darker beneath the surface. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCircling them is Twilly Spree, a hotheaded environmentalist with too much cash and a gift for over-the-top revenge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen dark money and twisted motives bring their worlds crashing together, Viva and Twilly become unlikely allies. Together, they uncover a tangle of corruption and conspiracy led by a plastic-surgery-loving billionaire couple and a clueless congressman with delusions of grandeur. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his most outrageous and deliciously funny novel yet, Hiaasen delivers a gleefully chaotic portrait of contemporary madness.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101247148255,"sku":"9780593315477","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TThIeIiRLJ9780593315477.webp?v=1781068554"},{"product_id":"bad-monkey-paperback","title":"Bad Monkey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eComing on August 14 as an \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eApple Original series from \u003ci\u003eTed Lasso\u003c\/i\u003e co-creator Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn, here is a gleefully zany and incisively sharp tale f\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003erom \"the funniest important writer in America\" (\u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Andrew Yancy-late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office-has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident\/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it's not called the roach patrol for nothing). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But first-this being Hiaasen country-Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy's new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey-who just may be one of Carl Hiaasen's greatest characters.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101620605151,"sku":"9781538758366","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/mIwe7ETHrN9781538758366.webp?v=1781071842"},{"product_id":"bad-monkey-paperback-1","title":"Bad Monkey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow an Apple Original series from Ted Lasso Executive Producer Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn - A wickedly funny novel from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSqueeze Me\u003c\/i\u003e in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what's left of pristine Florida--now, of the Bahamas as well--get their comeuppance. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] comedic marvel ... 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But first--this being Hiaasen country--Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy's new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey, who with hilarious aplomb earns his place among Carl Hiaasen's greatest characters.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101630566623,"sku":"9798217072217","price":49.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YFaHAyiOtJ9798217072217.webp?v=1781071859"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/carl-hiaasen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}