Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health … Health Inspector gig (it’s not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first—this being Hiaasen country—Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy’s new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey, who with hilarious aplomb earns his place among Carl Hiaasen’s greatest characters.
Here is Hiaasen doing what he does better than anyone else: spinning a tale at once fiercely pointed and wickedly funny in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what’s left of pristine Florida—now, of the Bahamas as well—get their comeuppance in mordantly ingenious, diabolically entertaining fashion.
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Carl Hiassen novels are always good for a laugh and BAD MONKEY is no exception.
The characters are wild, zesty, some even quite sexy. Then there’s the monkey–okay, I never did bond with the monkey, but…
This story is about the defamed cop-turned-roach inspector Andrew Yancy who comes into possession of a human arm, one that his sheriff wants gone in a hush. It’s the type of thing that can kill tourism in the Keys and the boss wants none of that. But to bury the arm, so to speak, goes against Yancy’s cop instinct, and so it ends up in his freezer alongside his popsicles until other things start shaking loose.
If you like comedic crime, you will breeze right through this with a grin on your face.
Bad Monkey is absolutely, wonderfully, bizarre. Former cop Andrew Yancy is stuck in an awful health inspector gig. He’s got the severed arm of a suspected criminal in his freezer. He believes if he can just prove the man was murdered it will restart his career. There’s just about a half dozen Hiaasen weirdo’s in the way of him accomplishing his goal.
I like most of Hiassen’s books.
Love this book. Read every book by Carl Hiaasan I get my hands ob. Truly a unique experience in each.
Funny in a twisted way
I did not like it from the start. Just not my kind of book
Couldn’t put it down!
Very Hiaasen. Looking for a little escapism in todays quarantined environment, this is it.
I read anything by this author!
Naughty but delightful.
Love him. Await his newbook I
Believe ones out now
I picked the book because of the title- what a fun read! The twists and turns kept me wondering what would happen next A really fun read!
Cringe-worthy & hilarious!
I learned a good bit about Florida, restaurant inspections, medicare scams and real estate development — and enjoyed the twists. Very colorful and fun.
Fun read and fast paced.
Funny, intriguing and an intelligent plot
I love all his books!
I liked it, but not as much as most of his others.
Didn’t care for it. The characters were not very believable and I wasn’t able to like any of them
What a gas!!! You had to feel sorry for the things that happened to the excipients, but all of the characters were so well formed. And the monkey!!!!!