Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist and novelist best known for Florida-set comic crime fiction that turns corruption, environmental destruction, political absurdity, and human greed into savage satire. A longtime Miami Herald reporter and columnist, he brought a journalist’s eye... for scandal, development schemes, and civic hypocrisy to novels beginning with his solo debut, Tourist Season. Books such as Double Whammy, Strip Tease, and Sick Puppy established his signature mix of eccentric characters, crooked power brokers, ecological outrage, and escalating comic chaos. Hiaasen has also written acclaimed fiction for younger readers, including the Newbery Honor book Hoot, carrying his environmental concerns into middle-grade adventure. Readers return to him for sharp humor, righteous anger, bizarre Florida energy, and stories where greed rarely escapes punishment.
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