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Fever Beach
by Carl Hiaasen
Florida, dark money, and a spectacularly incompetent set of extremists who cannot organise a barbecue, let alone a coup.
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A hapless bigot, a mysterious philanthropist and a determined community volunteer collide in a state where the money is always dirtier than it looks.
Publisher's blurb
Synopsis
Hiaasen returns to the territory he owns: coastal Florida, developers, and grifters whose ambitions exceed their attention span. Underneath the farce is a real anatomy of how political donations get laundered into local power.
The editorial feature
Funnier and angrier than his recent work. The satire has teeth now, and the plotting is unusually tidy for a comic novel with this many idiots in it.
Book details
- Genre
- Thriller
- Released
- 13 May 2025
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Extent
- 384 pages
- Featured on
- 13 May 2025
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