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Sick Puppy is a laugh out loud book containing lots of humor, both black and funny. The main character, Twilly Spree, has no compunctions about stopping people from littering, or destroying his beloved state of Florida. The book opens with Palmer Stoat, lobbyist, driving along, throwing out litter along the highway. When Twilly spots this, he starts following Palmer everywhere he goes. It seems Palmer likes to make a mess of the ecology of Florida. He's recently returned from a tame, wild game hunting trip, where sick and old wild animals are hunted down, killed and put up as trophies for the big wigs. Twilly starts small with Palmer, first taking a garbage truck and dumping it all on Palmer's wife's red BMW, while the pair are eating out. From there, everything escalates, after breaking into Palmer's house to take the black Lab called Boodle. Later, Palmer's wife, Desie decides to join forces with Twilly to help stop the development of Toad Island. Governor Dick Artemus takes matters into his own hands by blackmailing the former governor, Clinton Tyree, aka Skink, into finding Twilly. Meanwhile, a middle aged hitman, who wears a snakeskin corset and spikes his hair is hired to kill Twilly. As the forces collide there is tons of laughter, but also an underlying anger about the rape and destruction of free land in the state of Florida. Hiaasen does a wonderful job in putting all the storylines together, making a wild ending all the more unbelievable, but mostly laugh out loud. This is Hiaasen at his best. It definitely beats some of his earlier works in scope and plotting. And the characters are so well developed. Even the lab, Boodle.
Reviewed by Steven Sill, November 2003
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