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Skinny dip [electronic resource] : a novel / Carl Hiaasen.
When Chaz Perron's wife discovers that he is running a scam- posing as a marine biologist to doctor water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the Everglades--, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner. Unlucky for Chaz, Joey survives clutching a bale of Jamaican pot. Rescued from the Atlantic by a former police officer, Mick Stranahan, she decides not to report him but instead haunt and taunt him-with Mick's help- by playing dead. As a result, Chaz becomes increasingly erratic and inept, a fact noticed by his ruthless and cold-blooded coworkers. Also, the six-time-married Mick rediscovers the thwarted romantic in him, believing that the seventh time might be the charm.
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- ISBN: 9780739353561 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 073935356X (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2004.
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| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 13:38:27. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Stephen Hoye. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 196206 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2004 October/November
Joey Perrone's husband throws her over the side of a ship on their anniversary cruise, but unfortunately for Chaz, she survives by clinging to a bale of Jamaican pot. Rather than reporting him, Joey stays hidden and, with the help of her rescuer, Mick, looks for an explanation for Chaz's antipathy, as well as punishing him with taunts and tricks. Stephen Hoye enhances the hilarity and charm of the story, especially Hiaasen's eye for offbeat details. Each character is colorful--the hairy bodyguard with a late-blooming conscience has a gravelly voice with a hint of bafflement; the transplanted Minnesota policeman is characterized by a slightly flattened accent. Hoye's voice has just the right amount of irreverence combined with impeccable, unrushed pacing. Vastly entertaining. A.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine - Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews - Audio And Video Online Reviews 1991-2018
*Starred Review* Stephen Hoye is a perfect choice to narrate Hiaasen's madcap novel. He understands the author's satiric humor, sense of environmental justice, and crazy characters. Chaz Perrone, biologist-for-sale, thinks his wife, Joey, knows he is falsifying water data about the Everglades for his corrupt boss, so he tosses her off the balcony of a cruise ship. But Joey doesn't drown and is saved by ex-cop Mick Stranahan. The high jinks kick in when Joey and Mick seek revenge. Through pacing, tone, and accent, Hoye vividly captures the wacky situations and myriad characters. His portrayal of a hulking bodyguard is stellar. The plot may be as swampy as the Everglades, but Hoye's reading is crystal clear. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews. - BookPage Reviews : BookPage Reviews 2004 September
Back in Hiaasen heavenThe crime caper is Carl Hiaasen's beat, and it's hard to beat him at it. Set on his familiar, flamboyant Florida turf, Skinny Dip is filled with delightfully eccentric and eccentrically screwed-up characters, including Skink, ex-governor-turned-ecological-avenger of the endangered Everglades; Chaz, a real sleaze who abets the endangerment of the Everglades, then tries to kill his gorgeous wife; and Mick, the many-times-married island recluse who saves her. Once again Hiaasen shows us that crime doesn't pay—or as Karl Rolvaag (no, not Giants in the Earth Rolvaag), the pale blond Minnesotan cop who keeps two pale blond pythons as pets, describes it, a "case that wrapped itself up . . . where all the bad guys just canceled each other out and saved everybody the hassle of a trial." Narrator Barry Bostwick does a bang-up job and seems to be having as much fun reading as you'll have listening. Copyright 2004 BookPage Reviews.
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2004 May #2
Florida's preeminent satirist returns from a YA excursion (Hoot, 2002) to ask the eternal question: What happens when the wife you've killed isn't dead?Joey Perrone can't imagine why her husband married her or why he wanted to kill her. But it's too late to ask now that Joey's struggling to stay afloat several stories below the ship deck he pushed her from during their anniversary cruise. She doesn't know that Chaz was afraid his wife had discovered that he was nothing but big-ticket farmer Red Hammernut's "biostute," a State of Florida biological inspector who was faking the results of phosphate testing in order to give Red's mega-polluting farm a clean bill of health. Now that she's presumed dead, Joey and Mick Stranahan, the State's Attorney's investigator who's been pensioned off to the middle of nowhere so that he can rescue her, have all the time in the world to figure out why Chaz wanted to get rid of Joey and what naughty games he's been up to. Their interventions soon escalate from creepy pranks against the grieving widower to a blackmail demand backed up by a faked video of the murder. Meanwhile, Det. Karl Rolvaag, the investigator who's counting the days till he can leave South Florida and return to frigid Minnesota, develops suspicions of his own about Ricca Spillman, the stylist who's been solacing Chaz. And Earl Edward O'Toole, the apelike minder Hammernut has hung around Chaz's neck, begins to move beyond inarticulate resentment at the bullet lodged in his butt-crease when he's befriended by an elderly cancer patient whose Fentanyl patch he's swiping. The crew is rounded out by the usual cargo of zanies, with Hiaasen's signature attention to nonhuman members of the cast."I had a feeling he didn't love me any more," muses bobbing Joey, "but this is ridiculous." It's also bitingly satirical, sublimely zany, and deeply satisfying.First printing of 300,000; first serial to Best Life Magazine; author tour. Agent: Esther Newberg/ICM Copyright Kirkus 2004 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2004 March #1
An incompetent marine biologist tries to do in his wife when she discovers his collusion with a corporate type indifferent to despoiling the Everglades. But then she turns the tables. A five-city author tour. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
