I am obviously in a place right now where Hiaasen's novels hit buttons I like having hit, and this one does just that. There's a nefarious scheme that involves continuing to destroy the Everglades unhindered, and it gets at least partially foiled, and the schemers come to bad ends; kinda oddly, approximately no one else does (mainly because none of the other characters in the novel are involved in that scheme--even the people knowingly committing adultery are not behaving that sort of badly). There's typical Hiaasen wit and mild raunch along side the crime and corruption and environmental destruction. Very laugh-out-loud in parts.
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