Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #89460 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Synopsis
Hiaasen at his riotous and muckraking best. When eco-enthusiast Twilly Spree spots someone 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 the 'malling' of a Gulf Coast Island...A quick spot of dognapping later and the pathologically short-tempered Twilly finds himself embroiled in a murky world of singing toads, bogus big-game hunters, large vet bills and in the company of an infamous ex-governer who's gone back to nature with a vengeance. With Sick Puppy, Carl Hiaasen unleashes another outrageously funny tale that gleefully lives up to its title and proves yet again that Hiaasen is master of the satirical thriller.

Customer Reviews

Pristine Florida?
Carl Hiaason has got his writting style back. Outrages and funny at times. The charcaters are colorful and memorable. Even the labador, Boodle. In Sick Puppy we have a an eco-terrorist that has a compulsive drive to make sure that any one that he happens to witness harming the environment, learns the error of their ways.

Our eco-terrorist, Twilly Spree, happens to be driving behind Palmer Stoat, a state lobbyist, when Palmer throws his trash out the window of his Range Rover. This starts Twilly on a crusade to teach Palmer the error of his ways. While trying to teach Palmer lesson after lesson, Twilliy uncovers that littering is just one of Palmer's destructive habits.

This is a traditional Hiaason book with an imaginative ending. If you have a dark sense of humor, pick this book up.

Hiaasen at his usual best
This is typically Hiaasen - set in Florida, including an ecccentric eco-warrior, a beautiful woman, a truly repulsive baddie and numerous corrupt politicians bent on despoiling the beauty of Florida's coastline. As with all Hiaasen's work, good triumphs over evil, the baddies suffer painful and ignoble deaths. The reader is left with a sense of temporary satisfaction - the plan has been thwarted this time, but we just know that someone else will try it again soon.

I love Hiaasen's novels - they are easy to read, fast-paced and witty, with the usual thumbnail character sketches fleshing out absurd characters that are strangely realistic. The storylines are a little formulaic, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it. if you haven't read Hiaasen, do start - you won't be disappointed.

The world needs more Twilly Sprees
For anyone who has been to Florida and only seen the concrete of the highway, the shopping malls and the coastal hotels. Twilly Spree and ex-Governor Clinton Tyree's respective campaigns to clean up Florida both environmentally and politically are hilarious, as are the sheannigans of the various scum-bags they run across. Very funny!