Squeeze Me - Large Print by Carl Hiaasen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns out, is far from the truth. Meanwhile, a bizarre discovery in the middle of the road brings the First Lady's motorcade to a grinding halt (followed by some grinding between the First Lady and a lovestruck Secret Service agent). Enter Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, who arrives at her own conclusions after she is summoned to the posh island to deal with a mysterious and impolite influx of huge, hungry pythons"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"If you could use some wild escapism right now, Hiaasen is your guy." --Janet Maslin, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/><b>From the author of <i>Skinny Dip</i> and <i>Razor Girl</i>, a hilarious, <i>New York Times</i> best-selling novel of social and political intrigues, set against the glittering backdrop of Florida's gold coast.</b> <p/>It's the height of the Palm Beach charity ball season: for every disease or cause, there's a reason for the local luminaries to eat (minimally), drink (maximally), and be seen. But when a prominent high-society dowager suddenly vanishes during a swank gala, and is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. Kiki Pew was notable not just for her wealth and her jewels--she was an ardent fan of the Winter White House resident just down the road, and a founding member of the POTUSSIES, a group of women dedicated to supporting their President. Never one to miss an opportunity to play to his base, the President immediately declares that Kiki was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, it turns out, is far from the truth. <p/>The truth might just lie in the middle of the highway, where a bizarre discovery brings the First Lady's motorcade to a grinding halt (followed by some grinding between the First Lady and a love-struck Secret Service agent). Enter Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, who arrives at her own conclusions after she is summoned to the posh island to deal with a mysterious and impolite influx of huge, hungry pythons . . . <p/>Carl Hiaasen can brighten even the darkest of days and <i>Squeeze Me</i> is pure, unadulterated Hiaasen. Irreverent, ingenious, and highly entertaining, <i>Squeeze Me</i> perfectly captures the absurdity of our times.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Carl Hiaasen remains the undefeated, unscored-upon conscience of Florida, maybe the conscience of the whole country. I laughed and laughed and laughed while I read <i>Squeeze Me</i> - until I remembered, <i>hey, I live in Palm Beach! </i>Oh yeah, spoiler alert - the python did it." --James Patterson <p/>By the evidence of the scabrous and unrelentingly hilarious <i>Squeeze Me</i>, the Trump era is truly Carl Hiaasen's moment . . . Just dive in and have a wonderful time. --Richard Lipez, <i>The Washington Post</i> <p/>Novelists, like the rest of us, can't look away from the Trump administration. Unfortunately, they haven't found much interesting to say about it. Carl Hiaasen's thriller <i>Squeeze Me</i> is, blessedly, an exception . . . Hiaasen is clear-eyed: He meets the president on his subterranean level . . . <i>Squeeze Me</i> is funny, but as with Hiaasen's best work, it's grounded in genuine outrage over the corruption that increasingly defines American political and cultural life. And it turns out there's no better place to invoke that outrage than the wealthy swamps of Florida. --Alex Shephard, <i>The New Republic</i> <p/>Pink pearls, pythons and a philandering president add up to a rather unusual Palm Beach social season in Carl Hiaasen's riotously funny new novel, <i>Squeeze Me . . . </i>[Hiaasen] knows and loves Florida and hates what has been done to it as much as anyone I know of, and those passions shape his razor-sharp satirical fiction. --Colette Bancroft, <i>The Tampa Bay Times</i> <br><i><br></i> <br><i>Squeeze Me </i>is vintage Hiaasen -- wry humor, social commentary and satire akin to Jonathan Swift, and all fun. --Oline H. Cogdill, <i>The South Florida Sun-Sentinel</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>CARL HIAASEN was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of fourteen previous novels, including the best sellers <i>Bad Monkey, Lucky You, Nature Girl, Razor Girl, Sick Puppy, Skinny Dip, </i>and<i> Star Island, </i> as well as six best-selling children's books, <i>Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp</i>, <i>Skink, </i>and<i> Squirm.</i> His most recent work of nonfiction is <i>Assume the Worst, </i> a collaboration with the artist Roz Chast.
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