| Andrew Yancy has the severed arm of someone in his freezer. Is it the remains of a shark attack victim or is there some other explanation? Yancy, suspended from his sheriff's job and serving time as a restaurant inspector pursues the case while making the lives of purveyors of less than fresh seafood miserable. DNA confirms the arm belongs to Nicky Stripling, medicare fraud specialist but Yancy has his doubts. Yancy confronts Hiassen's favorite foils, one developer ruining the view from his shack on Big Pine Key, another developing a luxury resort on Andros Island using land stolen from an itinerant fisherman allied with a terrifying voodoo queen and her filthy monkey Driggs. Stripling's widow appears on Andros Island romancing the developer of the luxury resort as evidence of her husband's death by shark unravels and the case is resolved.
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Plot & Themes Tone of story - very humorous Time/era of story: Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book descript. of violence and chases - 30 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 30 % Crime Thriller Yes Crime plotlets: General Crime (including known murderer) Yes Main Character Gender - Male Profession/status: Age: - 40's-50's Ethnicity/Race Setting United States Yes Water? Yes Water: - feeding sharks Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths Explicit sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references Unusual forms of death - drowned Unusual form of death? Yes Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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