Double Whammy
by Carl Hiaasen
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Author: Carl HiaasenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1989-03-01
ISBN: 0446352764
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: Good fun, and gripping read - easy stuff to like
Summary: 5 Stars
My First Carl Hiaasen book and definitely not my last. Who'd have thought that Bass Fishing could be so interesting?...and come to think of it, who'd have thought that Bass Fishing could have so much dirt and subterfuge going on behind the scenes.
Hiaasen really brings the whole tournament, and reasons for it, alive. All over America thousands of Bass fishermen head out for the water each weekend in search of the ultimate 'Hawg'. Their fishing, their lures, their equipment all add loving, and at times, hilarious, detail to this nice little murder mystery.
Set in Florida, this has ex-photographer, and private investigator RJ Decker hired by the extremely unlikeable Dennis Gault to find out how top Bass Fisherman Dickie Lockhart is managing to cheat at tournaments.
It turns out the stakes are a lot higher than this. Lockhart is sponsored by the Outdoor Christian Network, and its sleazy owner. There is murder and nepotism afoot and people are turning up mysteriously dead.
At the back of all this is the Skink - or Captain, as he insists on being called. He lives the life of a hermit in the back of a Florida town, and enjoys eating Fresh road kill. He is insistent that people who come visit him also enjoy eating fresh road kill. Underneath his eccentric exterior is a resourceful and cunning person who manages to supervise a great ending to this - figuring who did what to whom and why. And in a hilarious finale, getting a black cop and a hispanic cop to join on all-white Florida Bass fishing tournament as brothers - and catch the only fish.
I was surprised at just how readable this was. Sometimes it is difficult to get hold of books you just read - that grip your imagination and tickle your funny bone. I found this one of those. I couldn't predict where it was going to go, or how it was going to end. And even up to the last moment there was still an unpredictable twist to it. The plot had good twists and turns through it and a great cast of characters to push it along.
Summary of Double Whammy
R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida -- and a lot that's rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments. Here Decker will team up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit with an appetite for road kill; dare to kiss his ex-wife while she's in bed with her new husband; and face deadly TV evangelists, dangerously seductive women, and a pistol-toting redneck with a pit bull on his arm. And here his own life becomes part of the stakes. For while the "double whammy" is the lure, first prize is for the most ingenious murder.Literature & Fiction Books
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