The brand new caper from the king of comedy crime. Recent Hiaasen's might have fallen slightly short but not this. Busted from detective to roach inspector after having sodomised his girlfriend's husband with a dustbuster, Yancey sets out to solve the mystery of the left arm which turns up where it shouldn't be. What can go wrong?
One of Hiaasen's recent shortcomings has been recycling old characters. The governor gone renegade was great fun but surfaced once too often for my liking. These, so far as I am aware, are all new characters, thus fresh and engaging. You even empathise with a low-rent thug like Egg after the titular monkey has set about him.
In fact, that's my one criticism. Not enough monkey and not enough monkey being really, really bad.
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