Strip Tease (original 1993; edition 1994)

What fun! Totally enjoyable.

Hiaasen tends to be VERY irreverent about everything in society.
But you can usually point to someone you know and say 'THEY would make a good actor for THIS character."
The book also kept our interest from start to finish.
It DOES come with a DC alert, though - make sure your hands and mouth are empty, that you are sitting down when you read this book... or you may regret it. ( )

Entertaining, and it was nice to have one old friend from the previous book. I enjoyed the spunk of the main character, and there were some amusing bits, but overall only ok. ( )

Carl Hiaasen gives us a fun little romp into the Eager Beaver strip club with this story that starts with strip artist Erin trying to make enough money to get custody of her child back from her drugged-up, wheelchair stealing ex-husband who got custody of the child only because his record was removed from court files in exchange for his help catching other lowlifes (and a judge who waved the Bible at Erin for her stripping, but then ended up in the clubs with the Bible in his lap hiding the truth.)

Too many plot twists and turns; lots of characters with their own side stories. This would have been better had it been tightened up in length, but overall, entertaining. ( )

Sometimes all it takes is a simple incident to set the wheels of chaos in motion. A drunken man celebrating his bachelor party, starts to hug and grope a topless dancer, inciting rage in another customer who hits him repeatedly on his head with a champagne bottle, until the bouncer drags him off. A photograph happened to be taken by another patron of this entertainment venue.

The photograph becomes the catalyst for a number of incidents. Political fixers attempt to protect an unraveling Congressman, an ex-husband drug addict stealing wheelchairs while retaining custody of a child, scorpions and roaches being used in scams to extort money from corporations, murders and a dancer and homicide detective looking to set things right.

This is a thriller set on a simmering boil all the way till the end. ( )