Books
October, 1993
We laughed till we cried when we read Carl Hiaasen's latest novel, Strip Tease (Knopf). Hiaasen's book opens at 2:30 A.M. in a Fort Lauderdale nude-dancing bar called the Eager Beaver, where the drunken guest of honor at a bachelor party crawls onto the stage to hug a stripper. Suddenly, he is attacked by an equally drunken U.S. congressman wearing a wig and dark glasses, who beats him senseless with an empty champagne bottle. From there, we follow a fast-moving tale of lust, blackmail, politica...
