Skin Tight

By Carl Hiaasen

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

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....