Hiaasen was born and raised in South Florida. Furthermore, Hiaasen infuses his absurdist stories with a powerful dose of social and political awareness, focusing on his home turf of South Florida with an unflinching keenness. They are veritable playgrounds for wild characters that flout clichés: a roadkill-eating ex-governor, a bouncer/assassin who takes care of business with a Weed Wacker, a failed alligator wrestler named Sammy Tigertail. While the pulp of yesteryear seems forever chiseled in an almost quaint black and white world, Hiaasen's books vibrate with vivid color. However, the novels of Carl Hiaasen completely challenge these pulpy conventions. When one thinks of the classics of pulp fiction, certain things-gruff, amoral antiheroes, unflinching nihilism, and a certain melodramatic self-seriousness-inevitably come to mind. Razor Girl is a sequel to Hiaasen's 2013 Bad Monkey. That the Razor Girl may be the key to Yancy's future will be as surprising as anything else he encounters along the way-including the giant Gambian rats that are livening up his restaurant inspections. ( From the publisher.) Yancy believes that if he can singlehandedly solve a high-profile murder, he'll get his detective badge back. and Andrew Yancy-formerly Detective Yancy, busted down to the Key West roach patrol after accosting his then-lover's husband with a Dust Buster. Brock Richardson, a Miami product-liability lawyer who's getting dangerously-and deformingly-hooked on the very E.D. a street psycho known as Blister who's more Buck Nance than Buck could ever be. Buck Nance, a Wisconsin accordionist who has rebranded himself as the star of a redneck reality show called Bayou Brethren. Dominick 'Big Noogie' Aeola, a NYC mafia capo with a taste for tropic-wear. There's Trebeaux, the owner of Sedimental Journeys-a company that steals sand from one beach to restore erosion on another. When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!).īehind the wheel of the other car is Merry Mansfield-the eponymous Razor Girl-and the crash scam is only the beginning of events that spiral crazily out of control while unleashing some of the wildest characters Hiaasen has ever set loose on the page. The new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Bad Monkey

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