Carl Hiaasen

Tom Krone, giornalista investigativo costretto a lavorare in un piccolo quotidiano di provincia, viene inviato nella cittadina di Grange a intervistare una giovane donna di colore che ha vinto quattordici milioni di dollari alla lotteria di stato. Gli altri quattrodici milioni sono andati ad una coppia di neonazisti decisi a fondare una loro milizia. I due malfattori si impadroniscono pero anche dell'altra meta della vincita. Jo Layne non e pero una sprovveduta e decide di lanciarsi al loro inseguimento. Tom Krone, affascinato dalla giovane donna decide di aiutarla.

Wahoo vive en una casa llena de todo tipo de animalessalvajes. Su padre es domador y ambos son contratadospor un famoso "reality show" para rodar un episodio enlos peligrosos pantanos de Florida. De repente, elrodaje del programa se convierte en una apresuradapersecucion llena de alimañas y mordiscos...

Erin is a stripper. Her place of work, the tastefully named Eager Beaver, is the scene of an explosive encounter between sex and politics in the shape of Dave Dilbeck, a corrupt congressman who epito

When a severed arm is discovered by a couple on honeymoon in the Florida Keys, former police detective - now reluctant restaurant inspector - Andrew Yancy senses that something doesn't add up. Determined to get his badge back, he undertakes an unofficial investigation of his own.Andrew's search for the truth takes him to the Bahamas, where a local man, with the help of a very bad monkey (who allegedly worked on the Pirates of the Caribbean movies) is doing everything in his power to prevent a developer from building a new tourist resort on the island, with deadly consequences . . .Outrageous, hilarious and addictive, this is the unique Carl Hiaasen at his absolute best. Bad Monkey will have you on the edge of your seat and laughing out loud.

JoLayne Lucks, que vive en una ciudad famosa por sus insospechados milagros, no puede dejar de sorprenderse cuando obtiene el gran premio de la lotería estatal, veintiocho millones de dólares. Tiene grandes planes para su fortuna: salvar de la excavadora una singular y paradisíaca porción de Floridad.Sólo hay un problema: existe otro boleto ganador y sus propietarios no tienen intención de compartir el premio. Cuando éstos, fundadores de un patético grupo paramilitar, arrebatan a JoLayne su boleto, a ella no le queda más remedio que aliarse con un periodista y salir en busca de los dos canallas de gatillo fácil y de la preciosa camarera que han tomado como rehén. Hacer fortuna nunca fue fácil...

When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction. He favors unambiguous political statements -- such as torching Jet-Skis or blowing up banks -- that leave his human targets shaken but re-educated. After watching Stoat blithely dump a trail of fast-food litter out the window, Twilly decides to teach him a lesson. Thus, Stoat's prized Range Rover becomes home to a horde of hungry dung beetles. Which could have been the end to it had Twilly not discovered that Stoat is one of Florida's cockiest and most powerful political fixers, whose latest project is the "malling" of a pristine Gulf Coast island. Now the real Hiaasen-variety fun begins . . . Dognapping eco-terrorists, bogus big-time hunters, a Republicans-only hooker, an infamous ex-governor who's gone back to nature, thousands of singing toads and a Labrador retriever greater than the sum of his Labrador parts -- these are only some of the denizens of Carl Hiaasen's outrageously funny new novel. Brilliantly twisted entertainment wrapped around a powerful ecological plea, Sick Puppy gleefully lives up to its title and gives us Hiaasen at his riotous and muckraking best.

Virtually unnoticed, JoLayne Lucks stops by the Grab'n'Go to play the same numbers she's played every week for five years. Each lotto number marking the age at which she dumped a tiresome lover. She doesn't know it yet, but the discarded men in JoLayne's life have finally amounted to something.

Vividly drawn male and female characters appeal to boys and girls whilst humorous tone, witty dialogue and comic situations engage even the most reluctant reader.

Roy Eberhardt vient d''arriver en Floride, et il ne s''y plait pas. C''est tout plat et les brutes du college y sont aussi stupides qu''ailleurs. Dana Matherson en est un bon exemple. Mais si, dans le bus de l''ecole, Dana n''avait pas ecrase la tete de Roy contre la vitre, celui-ci n''aurait jamais aperçu cet etrange garçon qui courait pieds nus. Il n''aurait pas pris part a cette affaire bizarre et croise d''autres habitants inattendus de Floride, alligators, serpents a sonnettes (et a paillettes !), mignonnes petites chouettes menacees, sans oublier quelques individus plutot exotiques ! La vie en Floride devient enfin excitante... Brillant, drole, excentrique, le premier roman pour la jeunesse de Carl Hiaasen illustre aussi son combat pour preserver la vie sauvage et la beaute de son pays.

Breeze Albury makes his living smuggling goods along the Florida Coast, but when organized-crime bosses threaten his son's life to get him to work for them, Albury turns into a one-man wrecking ball