They are veritable playgrounds for wild characters that flout clichés: a roadkill-eating ex-governor, a bouncer/assassin who takes care of business with a Weed Wacker, a failed alligator wrestler named Sammy Tigertail. While the pulp of yesteryear seems forever chiseled in an almost quaint black and white world, Hiaasen's books vibrate with vivid color. However, the novels of Carl Hiaasen completely challenge these pulpy conventions. When one thinks of the classics of pulp fiction, certain things - gruff, amoral antiheroes, unflinching nihilism, and a certain melodramatic self-seriousness-inevitably come to mind. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino, once and for all. His allies may not add up to much–his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter Lice Peeking, a greedy sot with poor hygiene Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned and a mysterious pirate-but Noah’s got a plan to flush this crook out into the open. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally. Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah’s dad is stuck in the clink.

He can’t prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Noah’s dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor–which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet.

You know it’s going to be a rough summer when you spend Father’s Day visiting your dad in the local lockup.

Flush by carl hiaasen