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Tourist season

by Hiaasen, Carl.

Format: Print Book 2003
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Summary
The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder, in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of fanatics and a very hungry crocodile.
Published Reviews
Publisher's Weekly Review: "When the president of the Miami Chamber of Commerce is found dead inside a suitcase with his legs sawn off and a rubber alligator stuffed down his throat, news and police locals prefer to believe it's simply another typical South Florida crime. But when letters from a terrorist group, Las Noches de Diciembre, link the man's death to the disappearances of a visiting Shriner and a Canadian tourist, former newsman (now private eye) Brian Keyes intuits that someone is out to kill Florida's tourist trade. His investigation leads him to an old journalism crony obsessed with fury against the state's irresponsible development policies. Miami Herald columnist Hiaasen writes with a seriousness of intent and knack for characterization which, unfortunately, outstrip his comic talents. This is an auspicious solo debut for the serious Hiaasen (he has written three thrillers with William Montalbano), but a lukewarm one for him as a potential comic-absurdist. (March 24p (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information
Subjects Private investigators -- Fiction.
Tourism -- Fiction.
Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction.
Florida -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Mystery fiction.
Black humor.
Publisher New York :Grand Central Publishing,2003
Language English
Description 378 pages ; 18 cm
ISBN 0446343455
9780446343459 (pbk.)
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