Bad Monkey - Andrew Yancy, Bk 1 Author:Carl Hiaasen Andrew Yancy has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Ex-cop Yancy thinks the boating accident / shark-lunch explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, he might get back on the police force. But first Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course o... more »f wildly unpredictable events with a crew of unpredictable characters, including his ex-lover, a fugitive; the widow of the frozen arm; two avaricious real-estate speculators; a Bahamian voodoo witch; Yancy's new lover, a kinky coroner; and the bad monkey, who with hilarious aplomb earns his place among Carl Hiaasen's greatest characters.
Here is Hiaasen doing what he does better than anyone else: spinning a tale at once fiercely pointed and wickedly funny in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what's left of pristine Florida (and now the Bahamas) get their comeuppance in ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion.« less