Word: hiaasen
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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AUTHOR: CARL HIAASEN...
...caper novel. But still you want to laugh and cheer when the plucky stripper finally gets the upper hand against Dilbeck: "Davey, I'm trying to cut you a break. Now if you'd prefer Plan B, that's fine. Have you ever been on Hard Copy?" If Hiaasen dialogue like that isn't worth the price of admission, then spend your late nights curled up with Proust...
Here is a surefire quiz to discover whether Strip Tease -- or any of the four earlier Florida caper novels by Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen -- belongs on your nightstand. If you find these characters funny, then Hiaasen...
...lowlife so inept that he boosts wheelchairs, not cars, for a living. Congressman Dilbeck (the poor man's Wilbur Mills) becomes as obsessed with Erin as the sugar lobby is with keeping this drunken buffoon of a subcommittee chairman in office. Throw in a few dead bodies, and Hiaasen's morality play is off and running like a frisky Congressman on a bender...