"Carl Hiaasen isn't just Florida's sharpest satirist-he's one of the few funny writers left in the whole country ... I think of him as a national treasure [and] I have yet to be disappointed." --- Newsweek<BR><BR>"Just sit back and watch as Hiaasen, with his customary flourish, spins a glittering magic wheel and comes up with another set of characters only he could create." --- The Washington Post Book World<BR><BR>"Hiaasen's wasteland is as retributive as Cormac McCarthy's, but funnier ... His pacing is impeccable, and the scenes follow one another like Lay's potato chips." --- The New York Times Book Review<BR><BR>"Hiaasen [is] king of the screwball comedies ... The charismatic, animated characters deliver lines that will bring tears of laughter to even the most jaundiced readers ... This is top-notch storytelling by a truly original comic novelist." --- Rocky Mountain News<BR><BR>"A whole lot Survivor, a little bit The Tempest, with a pinch of Laurel and Hardy ... Hiaasen's ear is pitch-perfect." --- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<BR><BR>Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (nee Cheryl Bunterman): a pop star since she was fourteen---and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster<BR><BR>Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt double," Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too "indisposed"---meaning wasted---to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott<BR><BR>Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (uber-stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker-wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry's public---and from Cherry herself<BR><BR>The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink---the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp---and now he's heading to Miami to find her ...<BR><BR>Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry's motley posse does?<BR><BR>All will be revealed in this hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane