This is an early novel by Hiaasen and he hadn't developed the voice of his later works. Even so, it is another send up of the "Florida Culture" he writes of so well. A series of seemingly random deaths have been occurring in the Miami area. A visiting Shriner, a woman from a senior living community, the Chamber of Commerce president, are all victims of a crew of oddball terrorists intent on driving the visitors and invading transplants that are ruining the state of Florida. The protagonist, Brian Keyes is a private detective and former newsman. The perpetrators are a motley crew calling themselves The Nights of December (Las Noches de Diciembre) which includes a newspaper reporter, a former pro football star, and a failed "Cuban" bomb maker, and the Seminole mastermind of the Native American casinos in the state. There are more deaths in this book than in Hiaasen's later novels but each occurs in a different and somewhat interesting way. The later books, especially the ones that feature the character Skink, are better efforts.
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