Razor Girl - Softcover

Hiaasen, Carl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451494261 ISBN 13: 9780451494269

Publisher: Random House LCC US, 2016

Synopsis

A lovable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star in this raucous and razor-sharp new novel from Carl Hiaasen, the bestselling author of Bad Monkey.

Merry Mansfield, the eponymous Razor Girl, specializes in kidnapping for the mob. Her preferred method is rear-ending her targets and asking them for a ride. Her latest mark is Martin Trebeaux, owner of a private beach renourishment company who has delivered substandard sand to a mob hotel. But there's just one problem: Razor Girl hits the wrong guy. Instead, she ends up with Lane Coolman, talent manager for Buck Nance, the star of a reality TV show about a family of Cajun rooster farmers. Buck Nance, left to perform standup at a Key West bar without his handler, makes enough off-color jokes to incite a brawl, then flees for his life and vanishes.

Now a routine promotional appearance has become a missing persons case. And Andrew Yancy, disgraced detective-turned-health inspector, is on the job. That the Razor Girl may be the key to Yancy's future will be as surprising to him as anything else he encounters along the way--including the giant Gambian pouched rats that are haunting his restaurant inspections.

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Review:

Carl Hiaasen s irresistible Razor Girl meets his usual sky-high standards for elegance, craziness and mike-drop humor. But this election-year novel is exceptionally timely, too. . . . [A] wonderfully overstocked book.
Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Raucous . . . It s a classic Hiaasen setup, and Razor Girl delivers on it with seasoned, professional ease. The dialogue somehow sounds believable even at its most deadpan hilarious, and the multi-pronged satire of Florida, corrupt cops, bumbling criminals, and, most exquisitely, the entertainment industry is gentle but merciless.
Steve Donoghue, The Washington Post
One of the wildest, funniest Hiaasen novels yet.
Sherryl Connelly, The Daily News
Hiaasen s propulsive plot moves this motley collection of weirdos swiftly through a Rube Goldberg string of mistakes and counter-mistakes. Hiaasen rules this satirized and exaggerated version of Florida as an agenda-driven and vengeful deity, reveling in the self-induced pitfalls that take down the worst offenders. His particular version of Murphy s Law operates with a sly grin and a razor-sharp sense of humor.
Eric Swedlund, Paste magazine
"Rejoice, fans of American madness who've sought fulfillment in political reportage. South Florida's master farceur is back to reassure you that fiction is indeed stranger than truth. . . . [Hiaasen's] plotting is so fine-tuned that preposterous complications that would strain lesser novelists fit right into his antic world. Relax, enjoy, and marvel anew at the power of unbridled fictional invention."
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
[An] immensely entertaining wild ride . . . Merry Mansfield, the Razor Girl, is sharp, that's for sure, and one of the coolest characters Hiaasen has ever brought to the page. . . . This is the ultimate beach read for anyone with a taste for Hiaasen s skewed view of a Florida slouching toward Armageddon.
Jane Murphy, Booklist (starred review)
"Breezy, enjoyable . . . fast-paced . . . readers will be hoping that Yancy and the other quirky denizens of Hiaasen's Florida will soon be back for another screwball adventure."
Publishers Weekly

From the Hardcover edition."

-Carl Hiaasen's irresistible Razor Girl meets his usual sky-high standards for elegance, craziness and mike-drop humor.- --The New York Times
-Vintage Hiaasen, in the very best way: darkly funny, unapologetically crazy, and more Florida than a flamingo eating a Cuban sandwich while singing a Jimmy Buffett song.- --NPR Books
-Raucous . . . It's a classic Hiaasen setup, and Razor Girl delivers on it with seasoned, professional ease.- --The Washington Post
-One of the wildest, funniest Hiaasen novels yet.- --The Daily News
-In Florida it's usually too hot to move very fast, but Carl Hiaasen, a native son of the Sunshine State, likes to hit the ground running. . . . The secret is Hiaasen's premium, high-grade comic prose, which keeps everything at the right temperature. In Florida, you have to know how to stay cool.- -- The New York Times Book Review

"Carl Hiaasen's irresistible Razor Girl meets his usual sky-high standards for elegance, craziness and mike-drop humor." --The New York Times

"Vintage Hiaasen, in the very best way: darkly funny, unapologetically crazy, and more Florida than a flamingo eating a Cuban sandwich while singing a Jimmy Buffett song." --NPR Books

"Raucous . . . It's a classic Hiaasen setup, and Razor Girl delivers on it with seasoned, professional ease." --The Washington Post

"One of the wildest, funniest Hiaasen novels yet." --The Daily News

"In Florida it's usually too hot to move very fast, but Carl Hiaasen, a native son of the Sunshine State, likes to hit the ground running. . . . The secret is Hiaasen's premium, high-grade comic prose, which keeps everything at the right temperature. In Florida, you have to know how to stay cool." -- The New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

The latest novel from comic crime genius and New York Times bestselling author, Carl Hiaasen

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House LCC US
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0451494261
• ISBN 13: 9780451494269
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352