From the funniest important writer in America comes a tale that is gleefully zany and incisively sharp and now available in mass market for the first time Miami Herald. Andrew Yancylate of the Miami Police and soontobelate of the Monroe County sheriffs officehas a human arm in his freezer. Theres a logical Hiaasenian explanation for that but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boatingaccidentsharkluncheon explanation is full of holes and if he can prove murder the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig its not called the roach patrol for nothing. But firstthis being Hiaasen countryYancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters including his justex lover a hotblooded fugitive from Kansas the twitchy widow of the frozen arm two avariciously optimistic realestate speculators the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms Yancys new true love a kinky coroner and the eponymous bad monkeywho just may be one of Carl Hiaasens greatest characters. show more