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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780446695718 ISBN: 0446695718 Label: Grand Central Publishing Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: May 09, 2005 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Studio: Grand Central Publishing Editorial Review: Product Description: The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginningNow Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murderin a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of fanatics and a very hungry crocodile. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - In the beginning.Carl Hiaasen is a very talented writer. He knows how to craft stories that are delightfully over-the-top, genuinely funny and cynical to the nth degree. Tourist Season is an early Hiaasen novel about a rag-tag group of American terrorists who hope to restore Florida to its former glory by driving out all the tourists, snowbirds and retirees. To accomplish this, they go on a killing rampage which they have convinced themselves will lead to a mass exodus from the Sunshine State. Brian Keyes, ... Read More Rating:  - Get everything he writes!This is the first of the Hiaasen books with his character, Skink. Once you meet Skink, you will need to read all of the books with him in it. Read them in order as it's fun to watch the characters develop. I reread them often. Rating: - A little darker than usual, but still good for some laughsThis is the third Carl Hiaasen book that I have read, and it stays pretty close to his usual formula of an unlikely hero trying to save Florida from some dangerously wacky criminals. It's an entertaining read with plenty of vintage Hiaasen humor predicated on the plausible lunacy of the Floridian race. The subject of the rape of the Everglades is pretty close to his heart, and the subtext of the book seems a little angrier than the others that I have read. In this book, he seems to have a lot of ... Read More Rating: - One of Hiassen's bestHaving grown up in Florida I completely sympathize with Hiassen's approach in this book. Florida has become overrun with the great white north and they have basically transformed it into a South New England, or a South Upper Midwest. So much for the when in Rome do as the Romans do. Anyhow, onto the funny nature of this book. From the get go this story rolls with wry humor, witty twists, odd characters and strange goings on. What a hilarious thought having a Shriner gone missing. I'm sure ... Read More Rating: - A Modern Pop Crime MasterpieceFans of crime and popular fiction can rejoice in Carl Hiaasen's excellent novel Tourist Season. Much, much darker than his later works - you can tell that he's passionate about Florida's landscape - and yet entirely accessible by adults looking for a good read, Tourist Season delivers in all ways it should. Sure, the romantic subplot seems a bit forced, but it's still entertaining. The characters are ALL interesting, regardless of their quirks. They're all very well drawn, if a bit caricaturish ... Read More |
