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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“Rather than be shipped off to boarding school, Richard Sloan’s cousin
Malley runs away with a questionable acquaintance she met online.
Richard shares his worry over her fate with a strange, one-eyed man he
stumbles across on a Florida beach. Hiaasen’s adult readers will
immediately recognize Skink, the former governor turned eco-warrior, who
first appeared twenty-five years ago in Double Whammy…Hiaasen’s concern
for the environment and its most vulnerable denizens is again on full
display, and Richard has a memorable epiphany when he loses his phone in
Choctawhatchee Bay: ‘Pursuing a desperate criminal through the
wilderness drastically rearranges your priorities.’”
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Publishers Weekly