Friday, 6 April 2012

Chomp by Carl Hiaasen



This book is an Everglades adventure centred around nature. Mickey Cray is an animal wrangler (he deals with animals). He gets a TV contract for a survival show hosted by Derek Badger, trouble is he is not fully recovered from concussion caused by an iguana that fell out of a tree (such a zany book) so his son Wahoo (I love the unusual names in this book like this and others such as Tuna Gordon and Raven Stark) has to help him.

They go to film in the Everglades where they see that Derek Badger is not the seasoned survivalist he is portrayed to be. In fact he hasn't got a clue about animals, nature, survival etc. and that leads to conflict with Mickey who absolutely loves nature, all good-natured and fun. Throw into the mix a drunken madman with a gun and the whole thing ends in an exciting manhunt.

This story is a fast-paced, zany adventure that I loved.

(I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed on Amazon here.)

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