What do you get when you combine insurance scammers, roofing scammers, a crooked building inspector, newlywed tourists, a crazy one-eyed ex-governor, a wealthy law school dropout who juggles skulls, a son seeking revenge for his mother's death in a mobile home, and a bunch of escaped wild animals thrown together in south Florida during the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew? The result is a large amount of mayhem, murder, accidental death, and a whole lot of wrecked houses. It's the characters that make this book memorable, especially the wild man called Skink. Hiaasen makes a natural disaster fun.
