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Goodbye Carl Hiaasen!
Palm Beach is not a quiet place, now that it is the home of the Winter White House. Society is excited and there is no shortage of charity events. At one event a wealthy woman disappears. No one sees her leave. No cameras recorded her leaving. The following day Angie Armstrong is called to the place where the event was held. Landscapers discovered a python in a tree. A very large python. Angie’s specialty is retrieving large animals, dangerous animals from places they should not be. She is very good at what she does.
Angie chopped of the head of the python and while removing the body, she notices a large lump in the snake. The python evidently ate something big. Yes, soon it is learned that it was the wealthy missing society woman, who is in the snake. Soon more pythons invade Palm Beach, and Angie is in the hunt to learn why.
This reader has long enjoyed the novels of author Carl Hiaasen. He has all his first editions. They were funny with great characters. This reader just finished the just released “Squeeze Me”. This is the last novel that this reader will read from this author. It started great, but soon it became a constant reviewing of Hiaasen’s hate for President Trump and the First Lady. It is a little hard to read the constant hateful descriptions of the president and to indicate that the First Lady is a woman of low morals.
This reader has several authors that he enjoys, who have different political beliefs. Those authors might express their beliefs on Facebook, which is fine. What they do not do, is express their political beliefs in their novels. One has to respect authors of this caliber. Carl Hiaasen is not one of them. “Squeeze Me” is trash. Don’t waste your money.
September 2020 · Books · verified purchase