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    Audiobook14 hours

    Skin Tight

    Written by Carl Hiaasen

    Narrated by George Wilson

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    About this audiobook

    When Nick Stranahan—a 42-year-old private investigator with an unusual record of marital failure—murders a would-be assailant by skewering him with the razor-sharp bill of a stuffed marlin, he sets off a roller coaster ride of events that will drop-kick him into the deep slime of Miami’s prosperous and sleazy plastic surgery industry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateJul 22, 2004
    ISBN9781440781162
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    Skin Tight
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    Carl Hiaasen

    Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida, where he started writing after being given a typewriter at the age of six. He writes a column for the Miami Herald and is the author of many bestselling novels, including Razor Girl and Bad Monkey. His books for younger readers include the Newbery Honor winner Hoot, as well as Flush, Scat, Chomp, and Skink – No Surrender.

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    • 3/5
      This is a slightly more outrageous and bizarre Hiaasen, which is saying something - still fun to go along for the ride, but without that touch of humanity he brings to his better books.
    • 3/5
      I find Carl H a good writer for those moments when I want something amusing but undemanding. This fulfils those criteria.
    • 2/5
      Totally unlikely story of a fraudulent and incompetent plastic surgeon who is being investigated for a patient he killed. A nearly 7' hit man tries to kill the investigator and ends up with no hand and a weed whip as a prosthesis. TV shock journalist involved and a nearly as fraudulent and incompetent lawyer injured while feeling up another victim of the surgeon (hard augmented boobs). Couple victims end up in a wood chipper. Al Garcia (carried over from Double Whammy--is he in others?) plays a role. The (ex-U.S. Attorney) investigator not as fun a character as Skink. Skillfully written and entertaining, but come on!
    • 4/5
      Hiaasen is a great read, his characters are quirck & outrageous. enjoyed
    • 4/5
      the characters are quirkier and there are a lot of them, but it actually gets to be too much. no human could be ahead of the game like stranshan, the "protagonist" in this tome, and i doublt no one at the highest level of the feeding chair could be so damned dumb as the good doctor Rudy. i think carl sometimes gives too much. you are left feelinjg as if you had just consumer three chocolate parfaits and a half pound of home made maple ice cream.
    • 4/5
      Fantastic and funny as always. This time plastic surgery is firmly in the sights of this weed whacker sharp wit.
    • 4/5
      More farcical crimebusting from Hiaasen, this time involving an inept plastic surgeon and a seven foot goon with a skin condition and one hand replaced by a strimmer. Daft entertainment, tightly plotted with a good ear for style and the occasional burst of more writerly prose when Hiaasen gives himself a rare, brief break from serving the relentlessly purposeful amusement he's constructing. Better than Basket Case, not as good as Sick Puppy.
    • 4/5
      Carl Hiaasen creates the craziest characters. I would expect no other author to create an ex-Amish hit man with a horrible facial disfigurement and a weed whacker for a hand replacement, and make him believable. Unlike some of Hiaasen’s other novels, the situation here isn’t completely outrageous… just the cast (including Reynaldo Flemm, who is so obviously patterned after Geraldo Rivera in his early days of being attacked by white supremacists). Someone is trying to kill Mick Stranahan, and once he discovers that it’s related to the disappearance of a young woman four years ago, he figures the best way for his life to return to its peaceful normality is for him to solve that mystery. It becomes a game of kill or be killed for Mick, and along the way he may just have met his 6th wife. I enjoyed this much more than the last Hiaasen I read, Sick Puppy.
    • 5/5
      Another Hiaasen romp featuring "retired" Florida special investigator Mick Stranahan. Mick's quiet life in the small house out in Stiltsville in the bay is disrupted by people who keep trying to kill him. Who is it that wants him dead? that's the big question. There isn't a lack of candidates, either, after a career like his putting bad guys behind bars for years. He keeps being shadowed by a hitman with the world's worst complexion and manages to barely escape fire bombs, automatic gunfire, and poison. Along the way, innocent and not so innocent bystanders are dropping like flies. Shady lawyers, vicious plastic surgeons, starlet wannabes, a vindictive ex-wife, and a self-important TV exposé reporter, Mick deals with everybody with the same straight-forward method. All he wants to do is sit on the dock and fish. Is this too much to ask?I absolutely love the way Hiaasen writes. His recurring characters are like old friends I've missed. He's got a flair for the ridiculous without going over the top. The good guys are gritty and human, the bad guys are deliciously bad and meet very satisfactory ends. There's always a little sex and maybe a romance, but the story is the thing. This man spins a yarn from multicolored fibers and draws you right in. 5
    • 5/5
      I laughed until I cried. My doctor recommended it and this book introduced me to Carl Hiaasen's unique sense of humor.