Skin Tight

"Hilarious!" according to Mary Wharton. The writing is clever, fast-paced and hilarious. Set in the state of Florida, the author, Carl H., makes merry with his take on the casual and deeply imbedded corruption within the state government and judicial system. The villains are over the top in ways that only Carl H. can imagine. The good guys, especially the key protagonist, Mick, are just as rough as the bad guys, but usually less greedy for material things and definitely more inclined to dispense an Old West version of justice clearly not sanctioned by the state. The key female characters are often good looking and shallow for the most . Indestructible ex-investigator outfoxes hit men in Florida Mick Stranahan has retired very early as an investigator for the State Attorney's office due to some unfortunate incidents in his career. He hasn't had an easy life personally or professionally. He's killed five men, all of them job-related, and had five wives, all of them cocktail waitresses.When the story opens, somebody's trying to kill Mick. He has no idea why, and it's happened so often before that Mick knows how to deal with it. But the hit man from New Jersey is just the beginning. The local hit man is more persistent.The cast of characters includes a grossly incompetent plastic surgeon; a. Jesse Mueller said This is Hiaasen at his best. His way-over-the-top pulp fiction bursts into the room. This is Hiaasen at his best. His way-over-the-top pulp fiction bursts into the room like a drunken senator in dishabille, and his lurid characters and plotlines demand attention, like the bleach-blonde hussy straightening her rumpled cocktail dress behind said senator.Skin Tight satirizes and lampoons the cosmetic surgery industry and the desperate, shallow subset of society that supports that field. Hiassen has his formula, you may recognize the darkly witty antihero, the female interest, the cocky villain who gets increasingly frustrated throughout the tale, and the villain's goon, who gets str

It's Hiaasen at his best. And life without him would be a pale imitation. Tehre is little humour darker than his, and little funnier' Evening Standard. Not to mention the barracuda. The whole thing is downright harrowing. Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead. He knows because he's just had to spear an intruder with a stuffed marlin's head. And that wasn't the first time. 'Hiaasen brings classic farce to the modern thriller. There was the plastic surgeon with extremely shaky handsthe personal injury lawyer with the beaming billboard facethe vanity-crazed star of TV's IN YOUR FACEand the high-stepping hit man with the moonscape skin

This wickedly amusing story is the work of a keen satirist who off-handedly exposes the moral rot at every level of society. Set in a south Florida swarming with ripoff artists, crooked cops, nude sunbathers and corrupt politicians, it features a Mafia-connected plastic surgeon with butterfingers, a bitchy Hollywood starlet, a remarkably inept hit man and a pompous TV journalist "nationally famous for getting beaten up on camera." Retired state investigator Mick Stranahan, the hero, kills an intruder in his seaside house on stilts by impaling him with a trophy spearfish. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. The cynical sleuth has just the right mix of sour and smarts to get a fix on a mad world. Due to an unresolved missing-person case, someone wants Stranahan eliminated, and his efforts to flush out the mixed bag of bad guys let Hiaasen ( Tourist Season ; Double Wham my ) display his manic sense of humor