05643cam a2200553 4500 233388648 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385350075 0385350074 B00AP2VR8W Amazon 446f91f9-f659-4851-9dec-9fe2bd6e9383 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1188861 OverDrive (Product ID) 79559 1188861 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib HIAASEN, CARL. Bad Monkey [Libby eBook]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2125kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:Andrew Yancy--late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff's office--has a human arm in his freezer. There's a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it's not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first--this being Hiaasen country--Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy's new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous 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--now, of the Bahamas as well--get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion. From the Hardcover edition.. "[A] rollicking misadventure in the colorful annals of greed and corruption in South Florida. . . . Hiaasen has a peculiar genius for inventing grotesque creatures . . . that spring from the darkest impulses of the id. But he also writes great heroes.". HTML:Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times. "Hiaasen [is] king of the screwball comedies . . . A truly original comic novelist . . . The charismatic, animated characters deliver lines that will bring tears of laughter to even the most jaundiced readers . . . This is top-notch storytelling by a truly original comic novelist.". Clayton Moore,. "Hiaasen's wasteland is as retributive as Cormac McCarthy's, but funnier. . . . [His] pacing is impeccable, and the scenes follow one another like Lay's potato chips.". HTML:John Leland, The New York Times Book Review. "Hiaasen [is] a superb national satirist . . . A great American writer about the great American subjects of ambition, greed, vanity and disappointment.". HTML:Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly. "Carl Hiaasen isn't just Florida's sharpest satirist--he's one of the few funny writers left in the whole country . . . I think of him as a national treasure.". HTML:Malcolm Jones, Newsweek. "This 'Triple-F'--fierce, funny, and Floridian . . . enfolds corruption, greed, mayhem, and very funny social satire in the way that only Hiaasen does it.". HTML:Reader's Digest. HTML:"[A] comedic marvel . . . [Hiaasen] hasn't written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip. . . . Beautifully constructed.". HTML:Janet Maslin, The New York Times. "Does anyone remember what we did for fun before Hiaasen began turning out his satirical comedies?". HTML:Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle. HTML:"Bad Monkey boils over with corruption and comeuppance. And yes, there's a monkey.". HTML:O, The Oprah Magazine. "No one writes about Florida with a more wicked sense of humor than Hiaasen.". HTML:Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today. "Hiaasen is laugh-out-loud funny and thoroughly entertaining.". HTML:Thomas Gaughan, Booklist (starred.) "[Hiaasen is] one of America's premier humorists.". HTML:Rege Behe, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "Inspired . . . Another marvelously entertaining Hiaasen adventure.". HTML:Publishers Weekly. "The gold standard for South Florida criminal farce.". HTML:Kirkus Reviews. "[A] deliciously zany romp. Buckle up for the ride.". HTML:People. Humor (Fiction.) Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=446f91f9-f659-4851-9dec-9fe2bd6e9383 https://samples.overdrive.com/bad-monkey?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/bad-monkey?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/bad-monkey?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)