Books
February, 2000
The secret of Carl Hiaasen's success is not merely his cockeyed sense of humor but also his anger at the way all the greed heads have turned the south Florida paradise of his youth into condo heaven and murder central. Two cases in point are Kick Ass (University Press of Florida), a hefty compendium of Hiaasen's passionate muckraking columns for The Miami Herald, edited by Diane Stevenson, and Sick Puppy (Knopf), his new novel. Kick Ass offers 200-plus examples of his hard-eyed, often hilarious...
