Hiaasen had made a good living writing hilarious, satiric novels about the people who are attracted to life in Southern Florida. Unfortunately, this book gets tiresome and silly, early on, making me want to throw it out the window but like the good soldier, I marched on to the end. Briefly, Chaz Perrone, scoundrel and womanizer extraordinaire, fears his wife Joey Perrone is on to his money making scheme, doctoring water samples from the Everglades, allowing big business to pollute the waters with impunity. Chaz's solution to the problem...throw Joey overboard from their cruise ship. Unfortunately, for him, Joey was a college swimmer, ends up surviving and being saved by Nick Stranahan, a loner, good looking of course, later her lover, sort of a run down Travis Mc Gee, if you have read John D. Mc Donald novels. Anyways, Joey and Nick decide to torture Chaz rather than tell the police, leaving clues, setting him up for the fall, making him think he is going crazy. They invade his house, leave Joey's clothes around, fake a will, have a funeral which she shows up at, all kinds of silly ways of getting back at Chaz. As I said, it gets tiresome and silly quite soon. So it goes.
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