Tourist Season
by Carl Hiaasen
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Author: Carl HiaasenEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-05-09
ISBN: 0446695718
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: In the beginning.
Summary: 4 Stars
Carl Hiaasen is a very talented writer. He knows how to craft stories that are delightfully over-the-top, genuinely funny and cynical to the nth degree. Tourist Season is an early Hiaasen novel about a rag-tag group of American terrorists who hope to restore Florida to its former glory by driving out all the tourists, snowbirds and retirees. To accomplish this, they go on a killing rampage which they have convinced themselves will lead to a mass exodus from the Sunshine State.
Brian Keyes, a former newspaper reporter turned private eye, and Al Garcia, a Miami police sergeant, are charged with stopping the terrorists' nefarious scheme.
Those readers familiar with Hiassen's later work know that he has the habit of killing off characters in some very original and gruesome ways. Most of the time, the victims of these cruel deaths are miscreants who presumably deserve their horrible fates. Because of this, readers are not turned off by the cruelty and can even appreciate the dark humor inherent in the ghastly acts Hiaasen describes. Unfortunately, when Tourist Season was written, Hiaasen had not yet learned that repeatedly subjecting perfectly innocent characters to cruel and inhuman punishment was likely to turn off many readers and that is the book's major flaw. The first part of Tourist Season contains several instances of innocent tourists and others meeting some very violent and grotesque deaths. I for one, did not find this portion of the narrative to be particularly funny.
The latter parts of Tourist Season are, however, much more enjoyable. Plenty of over-the-top action, some pricelessly cynical commentary and a few clever plot twists bring the proceedings to a satisfying conclusion.
Though slightly flawed, Tourist Season is a well written satiric novel which succeeds in showcasing Carl Hiaasen's prodigious talent. Four stars.
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The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning... Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must move from muckraking to rooting out murder, in a caper that will mix football players, politicians, and police with a group of fanatics and a very hungry crocodile.Comic Books
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