![]() Paine Underwood is angry because he loves the Florida Keys. You ought to go and look." His son Noah, the one who is left to pick up the pieces and save his dad's neck and marriage, says: "Maybe later." You've got to know what you're doing to sink one of those pigs. He's wayward and impulsive, a likeable liability who is annoyingly proud of his own wrecking ability. Paine Underwood may be an ecological hero but to his family he's "Paine-in-the butt" - a man with anger management issues. He's arrested and electronically tagged and loses his fishing licence. The story starts when Abbey's father - Paine - realises what's going on at the floating casino and, on impulse, rams the boat and sinks it. That mixture of heroic recklessness and fastidious caution is funny because it's so real. She is found walking the lonesome roads in her special reflective trainers, her bare legs covered in insect repellent. When the hero's little sister, Abbey, goes missing in the middle of the night - unleashing panic in the family - it turns out she's been trying to video the wrongdoers. All of the characters are beguilingly convincing. ![]() ![]() The plot is tight and nippy, with a couple of good twists at the end. ![]() But Hiaasen has somehow pulled it off, and I've been enviously trying to figure out his secret. You don't come across many political novels these days and when you do, you're often glad that there aren't more of them. ![]()
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