Meanwhile, warfare erupts between the Eager Beaver and the rival Flesh Farm, and not even the Beaver's new attraction-patrons wrestling strippers in a vat of creamed corn-can stem the tide of customers to the Farm and it's "friction" dancing. Both wind up dead, victims of the sugar-growers' long and homicidal arm. Two men try to blackmail Dilbeck: one, a lovestruck fan of Erin's, wants the congressman to help reverse the judicial decision that granted custody of Erin's daughter to her psycho husband, Darrell the other, a sleazy lawyer, wants money. No big deal-except that the white knight is Congressman David Dilbeck, toady to sugar interests and up for reelection. Out of the audience rushes an old gent who clubs the mauler with a bottle of Korbel. The typically bizarre action begins at Fort Lauderdale's Eager Beaver club, where a drunk fan is pawing star stripper Erin Grant. And the most venal as well: Hiaasen's satire is more barbed than ever here, pricking at Florida's apparently corrupt sugar industry. a congressman-depicting the Sunshine State as the weirdest place this side of Oz. Here's the Miami Herald reporter's fifth comic thriller-a marvelous madcap yarn pitting a stripper vs. It's a wonder Florida hasn't yet banished Hiaasen (Native Tongue, etc.).
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