Double Whammy
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
'Sharp humour, energetic action, and a supporting cast of well-drawn weirdos make this one of the most imaginative, zippy and fun to read capers of the year' The Times
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.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
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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
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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.
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Sick Puppy
- 341pages
- 12 heures de lecture
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.
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Ehemaliger Reporter Jack Tagger lebt ein trostloses Leben in der Nachruf-Abteilung. Als er vom mysteriösen Tod eines Rockstars erfährt, sieht er seine Chance auf eine Titelstory, was die frisch gebackene Witwe verärgert.
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Star Island
- 480pages
- 17 heures de lecture
Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug-fuelled disaster. Her 'stunt double' Ann travels everywhere with her, throwing paparazzi off the scent when they get too close. But one night, Ann's resemblance to Cherry Pye proves too convincing - she is kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo who only realises his mistake once it is too late to go back... From there it's a fast, funny and furious race against time to rescue Ann from a terrible fate. An international bestseller, acclaimed as Hiaasen's most hilarious, gripping novel to date, Star Island is an addictive read.
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Skink--No Surrender
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
Richard's cousin is missing, and his best hope of finding her rests with the wily, one-eyed, ex-governor of Florida. Carl Hiaasen introduces his iconic character Skink to a younger audience in this nail-biting adventure! A National Book Award Longlist Selection Classic Malley: her parents are about to ship her off to boarding school, so she takes off with some guy she met online... Poor Richard: he's less of a rebel than Malley, and a lot less trusting. He knows his cousin is in trouble before she does. Wild Skink: he's a ragged, one-eyed, ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, this unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets, and giant gators. In Carl Hiaasen's outrageous, hilarious, and wildly dangerous state of Florida, there are a million places an outlaw might stash a teenage girl. A million unpleasant ways to die. And two who will risk everything to rescue a friend . . . and to, hopefully, exact a bit of swamp justice.
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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.
