Skin tight

Description:

Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead. Mick is sure of this, because he just had to dispatch a pistol-packing intruder with the help of a stuffed marlin head. But who would want to hurt a former Florida state investigator? The answer is plenty of people as Stranahan soon finds himself acquainted with a litter of nefarious players, including a hit man whose skin problems could fill a comprehensive (if bizarre) medical textbook, a lawyer of questionable repute who advertises on billboards, and a TV show host whose taste for sensationalism is exceeded only by his vanity. The whole thing gets downright harrowing for the ex-cop in one of Hiaasen's most breathtaking, madcap romps everywhere even a plastic surgeon with extremely shaky hands waits to wring Stranahan's neck....

subjects: Fiction,  Physicians,  Private investigators,  Judicial corruption,  Corruption,  Conduct of life,  Political corruption,  Large type books,  Fiction, thrillers, suspense,  Stranahan, mick (fictitious character), fiction,  Florida, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Fiction, general,  Physicians, fiction,  Journalists

Places: Florida,  Miami-Dade County (Fla.)