<div><p>&quot;You just cover a lot of territory and you do it aggressively and you do it fairly and you don't play favorite sand you don't take any prisoners. It's the old school of slash-and-burn metropolitan column writing. You just kick ass. That's what you do. And that's what they pay you to do.<b>--Carl Hiaasen</b></p><p>Praise for <i>Kick Ass</i></p><p>&quot;Readers who know Hiaasen only from his bestselling crime novels will find that this collection of columns from the<i>Miami Herald </i>showcases the same voice singing in a different key . . . He writes with an old-time columnist's sense of righteous rage and an utterly current and biting wit.&quot;<b><i>--Publishers Weekly</i></b></p><p>&quot;Reveals an angry, alert civic muckraker in the pugilistic vein of Mencken or Royko. . . . Hiaasen cut his teeth as an investigative reporter, and this spirit is strong in both his chosen subjects and his wry attention to unforgiving evidentiary detail. . . . Deeply satisfying.&quot;<b><i>--Kirkus Reviews</i></b></p><p>&quot;Reminiscent of the snarky, opinionated newspaper articles of the great Mark Twain, Hiaasen's columns are finely crafted little gems.&quot;<b><i>--Booklist</i></b></p><p>&quot;Shows you that Hiaasen's seemingly implausible fictional premises aren't really far-fetched at all. He just knows Florida.&quot;<b><i>--Playboy</i></b></p></div>