Take a romp in the swamp with this New York Times bestselling mystery adventure set in the Florida Keys from Newbery Honoree Carl Hiaasen!Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor--which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can't prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah's dad is in the local lock-up.Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally . . . somehow.
Skink Séries
Cette série plonge les lecteurs dans le monde trouble de R. J. Decker, un détective privé débutant qui navigue dans les marais et les secrets de la Floride. Avec un mélange unique d'humour noir et de rythme effréné, chaque épisode révèle des affaires complexes pleines de tromperie et de danger. Préparez-vous à des rebondissements palpitants, des personnages excentriques et un voyage au cœur de la rudesse du Sud, où la survie est toujours en jeu.
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Native Tongue
- 416pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Disillusioned by his job in the publicity department at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills theme park, burnt-out reporter Joe Winder finds the story of a lifetime when the last two blue-tongued mango voles left on earth are stolen
Ouragan en Floride ! Fini les belles créatures et le sable fin. Les maisons s'envolent, les destins implosent et les barjos de tout poil sont à la fête. Il y en a même à qui ça donne des idées. Des idées d'arnaques, des idées de rapts, des idées de meurtres... Un ermite digne de Don Quichotte, un collectionneur de crânes, un tueur à la mine patibulaire, une jeune mariée qui a perdu son cher et tendre époux dans la tourmente. Tour à tour, ils sortent de l'ombre, de leurs vies, de leurs gonds. Que la fête commence ! Avec une verve et une truculence qui n'appartiennent qu'à lui, Carl Hiaasen - journaliste au "Miami Herald" - nous livre un nouvel épisode décapant de sa chronique des mœurs américaines. Un thriller hilarant et cinglant à souhait.
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. 'The funniest crime novelist to put pen to paper' - Evening Standard 'A story that'll make you roar with laughter' - Mirror 'Arguably his best novel yet' - Heat 'A refreshing, exhilarating read' - Observer 'Savage and very funny' - Sunday Telegraph'Hiaasen is untouchable' - The Times
Queue de poisson
- 535pages
- 19 heures de lecture
«Il avait tout prévu : la croisière en paquebot la promenade nocturne sur le pont et le moment où il la balancerait par-dessus bord au milieu de l'Atlantique. Encore mieux qu'un divorce. Mais ce que Chaz n'avait pas imaginé, c'est que Joey puisse survivre à tout ça. Et voilà que son "épouse regrettée" est repêchée par un ex-flic reconverti en Robinson, à quelques milles des côtes de la Floride. Elle pourrait le dénoncer. Mais ce ne serait pas drôle...»--quatrième de couverture
Star Island
- 480pages
- 17 heures de lecture
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherry’s handlers (über–stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker–wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry’s public—and from Cherry herself. The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink—the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp—and now he’s heading for Miami to find her . . . Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry’s motley posse does? All will be revealed in this hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane.
Skink No Surrender
- 281pages
- 10 heures de lecture
Readers are always thrilled to see a new book from the master of snarky satire, but they will be doubly excited for this book as Carl introduces young readers to Skink—an ex-governor of Florida gone feral, and one of the most iconic characters in Hiaasen's adult novels.
Carl Hiaasen can brighten even the darkest of days and Squeeze Me is pure, unadulterated Hiaasen. Irreverent, ingenious, and highly entertaining, it perfectly captures the absurdity of our times - and the White House.
