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Lädt ... Native Tongue (Original 1991; 2005. Auflage)von Carl Hiaasen
Werk-InformationenGroße Tiere: Roman von Carl Hiaasen (1991)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. It's okay. Others of his are better. ( ) I've read several books by Carl Hiaasen, including several of the Skink series. Skink is an interesting character, although he doesn't play a major role in this one. That role is probably filled mostly by a reporter named Joe Winder along with several supporting players including a senior citizen who is good at playing a batty old woman, but is actually pretty sharp, and good with a gun. Aside from Skink, there is another fun recurring character who follows him from place to place, a big, black State Trooper named Jim Tile who gets reassigned whenever Skink moves. Jim Tile is a pretty cool character. He meets up with a lot of racists who seem to want to provoke him with racial epithets, but Jim is good at outwardly ignoring them until he doesn't. At other times, he seems to love intimidating them, doing things like eating in places that don't welcome non-whites, and taking his time at it. The real main character is Florida and its environmental rape by land developers and crooked politicians. Skink was previously an honest governor of Florida, but finally gave up and walked away, disappearing until given up for dead by most people. Jim Tile had worked with him and helped him disappear. When a crooked amusement park owner in the Florida Keys tries to fake an endangered vole specie Skink appears. Skink is lives in the wilds of Florida and subsists mostly on roadkill. While he looks like a large homeless bum he was once the Governor of Florida. Other characters include Terry Whelper, a former legitimate journalist, who works in PR for the amusement park and his onetime girlfriend who makes a living doing phone sex. Two likable burglars, a steroid crazed security chief, a girl in a racoon costume and an elderly radical environmental activist make up the other characters. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML:From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel in which dedicated, if somewhat demented, environmentalists battle sleazy real estate developers in the Florida Keys. "Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." —New York Times Book Review When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X. Kingsbury and can end only one way.... Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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