Strip Tease - Hardcover

Hiaasen, Carl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679419810 ISBN 13: 9780679419815

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993

Synopsis

Suspense and hilarity combine with greed and political corruption in the tale of a Florida stripper, a sex-obsessed congressman, a heart-of-gold bouncer, a political "fixer," and a touch of blackmail. 60,000 first printing. Lit Guild Alt. Tour.

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Review:

At the Eager Beaver, a topless bar in Fort Lauderdale, former FBI clerk Erin Grant dances nightly to pay for legal fees in her custody fight for her young daughter. There David Dilbeck, a U.S. Congressman owned by the state's sugar interests is recognized by a regular who is infatuated with Erin and initiates a blackmail plan to influence her court case. The resulting mayhem, occurring in election year, involves machinations up to the highest state level, a poignant custody battle and murder.

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Congressman David Dilbeck has a bad problem. "I should never," he says, "be around naked women."  And late one night, at a gaudy Fort Lauderdale strip joint, Dilbeck loses control. He leaps onto the stage with the performers and proceeds to demonstrate his affections in a most unconventional way. The congressman barely escapes the scene, but not before being recognized by an odd little customer known as Mr. Peepers - an unlikely blackmailer, but (it turns out) a cunning one.  From the staid corridors of Congress to the sweltering cane fields of Lake Okeechobee, from a topless wrestling pit to a sunken Guatemalan banana boat, STRIP TEASE is a maniacally inventive and suspenseful tale that resonates with the furious intelligence, merciless characterization and savage good humor that we've come to expect from Carl Hiaasen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679419810
• ISBN 13: 9780679419815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 353