Less-kind definitions of “hack” focus on the mercenary intent of the writer as if it necessarily necessarily excluded any quality from the resulting work -but genre readers know better than that. It’s a concept that touches upon the traditional definition of a hack: a professional writer who can be counted upon to deliver what’s expected. Submitted for your consideration: the strange idea that some good authors are worth reviewing once but not twice. "He is so good," says Donald Westlake, "he ought to be illegal." In Strip Tease, Hiaasen is better than ever.Ĭarl Hiaasen: Strip Tease. It's a manically inventive and suspenseful tale that resonates with the furious intelligence, merciless characterization and savage good humor that we've come to expect from Carl Hiaasen. The chase leads from the staid corridors of Congress to the sweltering cane fields of Lake Okeechobee, from a topless wrestling pit to a sunken Guatemalan banana boat. She has her own special plans for the wayward politician. Meanwhile, the lust-struck Dilbeck secretly pursues the current woman of his dreams, a formidable nude dancer named Erin Grant. It is Moldy's mission to protect the congressman's reputation, shaky as it might be, and soon the stakes are murderously high.
To save himself from an election-year sex scandal, David Dilbeck desperately turns to Malcolm "Moldy" Moldowsky, a devious and cold-blooded political fixer. Peepers - an unlikely blackmailer, but (it turns out) a cunning one. The congressman barely escapes the scene, but not before being recognized by an odd little customer known as Mr. He leaps onto the stage with the performers and proceeds to demonstrate his affections in a most unconventional way. And late one night, at a gaudy Fort Lauderdale strip joint, Dilbeck loses control. "I should never," he says, "be around naked women." But he just can't stay away. Congressman David Dilbeck has a bad problem.
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