Naked Came the Manatee - Large Print Author:Carl Hiaasen (Editor) In South Florida, everyone wants to get a head. But not just any head. A very famous human head -- severed and snugged away in a cryonic container. A head that could spark a revolution and change the course of history. — Everybody wants a piece of the noggin: rotund gangster Big Joey G., a 102-year-old environmentalist, hard-boiled Miami reporter... more » Britt Montero, lawyer Jake Lassiter, and a would-be dictator in exile -- with ex-president Jimmy Carter and a lovable manatee named Booger thrown in for good measure.
With bodies piling up it's anybody's guess what will happen from one chapter to the next, as an all-star line-up of Florida's finest writers take turns at taking this outrageously original novel to the limit -- and beyond.
A delirious invention that is at once harrowing and hilarious, Naked Came the Manatee -- a suspense thriller written serially -- is the collaborative effort of 13 of Florida's most talented authors, including Elmore Leonard, Edna Buchanan, Dave Barry, James W. Hall, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, Les Standifore, Brian Antoni, Tananarive Due, Carl Hiaasen, Carolina Hospital, Evelyn Mayerson, and Vicki Hendricks.« less