NATIVE TONGUE
Carl Hiaasen
Fawcett Books
Mystery
ISBN: 0449221180

Hiaasen's love/hate relationship with Disney World comes to the fore as this mystery featuring an avaricious developer/theme park owner, Francis X. Kingsbury, and the endangered blue-tongued vole. Down on his luck writer Joe Winder is hired to hype the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills and he discovers that Kingsbury is on the lam from the Mafia. A steroid-head body builder, moonlighting as a hit man, is nearly a match for Hiaasen's anti-hero, Skink, whom we met in DOUBLE WHAMMY. Winder and Skink team up and their solution to Kingsbury's new golf course subdivision is the highlight of the book.

   --- Reviewed by Roz Shea

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