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Native Tongue

Native Tongue( )
Author: Hiaasen, Carl
Series title:Large Print Bks.
ISBN:978-1-56895-344-1
Publication Date:Jul 1996
Publisher:Cengage Gale
Imprint:Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $21.95
Book Description:

Rare and exotic animals are stolen from the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills zoo on North Key Largo by ruthless thugs...thugs with much bigger, and deadlier, things in mind than the creatures they've already kidnapped. The Amazing Kingdom's PR man Joe Winder, a burned-out, ex-muckraking reporter, wants to find the thieves. Who are they, and what is their true motive? As Winder follows a series of wierd and lethal events, he has no idea where his search will lead...until it's damn near too late.

Book Details
Pages:497
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Southern
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
Book Weight:0.66 Pounds
Author Biography
Hiassen, Carl (Author)
Carl Hiaasen was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 12, 1953. He received a degree in journalism from the University of Florida in 1974. He has been a reporter and columnist for the Miami Herald since 1976, and is known for exposing scandal and corruption throughout southern Florida. He has received numerous state and national honors for his journalism and commentary including the Damon Runyon Award from the Denver Press Club. His work has also appeared in numerous magazines including Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Time, Life, Esquire and Gourmet.

His best-selling novels include Double Whammy, Skin Tight, Native Tongue, Stormy Weather, Lucky You, Sick Puppy, Basket Case, Nature Girl and Razor Girl. His 1993 novel, Striptease, was adapted as a film in 1996 starring Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds. He also writes children's books including Hoot, which was awarded a Newbery Honor; Flush; and Scat. Hoot was adapted into a film in 2006. His non-fiction works include Team Rodent; The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport; and two collections of his newspaper columns entitled Kick Ass and Paradise Screwed. In 2013 his titles Chomp and Bad Monkey made The New York Times bestseller list. In 2014, his non-fiction title Dance of the Reptiles made it to the New York Times bestseller list. Skink - No Surrender made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014.

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