About the book: 2005 / "On a cool April evening, the clock struck eleven, and a woman named Joey Perrone fell overboard from the luxurious deck of the cruise ship Duchess of the Sun. Plunging into the dark waters of the Atlantic, Joey was so dazed that she didn’t think to panic. “I married a cretin,” she thought, cutting through the waves with her head.” The biologist, pretending to be a zealot for environmental protection, falsifies environmental data. A phlegmatic detective keeps two pythons at home and dreams of snow every day in the tropics. A hairy thug collects roadside crosses and kidnaps an old woman from a hospice. A retired police officer fishes a woman out of the sea after her husband inexplicably threw her into the sea during a cruise to celebrate their second anniversary. Assassination survivor Joey Perrone, a reclusive cop, and a New Zealand sheep farmer unravel a huge scam, having a lot of fun in the process. Carl Hiaasen's action-packed sitcom, bestseller Skinny Dipping, is now being filmed in Hollywood. Such a comic America cannot exist - but, oddly enough, it exists.