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Fever Beach

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Fever Beach

By: Carl Hiaasen
Narrated by: Will Damron
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Another instant classic from Carl Hiaasen—laugh-out-loud funny, tackling the current chaotic and polarized American culture (following in the path of Squeeze Me), with two wonderful Hiaasen heroes

“The afternoon of September first, dishwater-gray and rainy, a man named Dale Figgo picked up a hitchhiker on Gus Grissom Boulevard in Tangelo Shores, Florida. The hitchhiker, who reminded Figgo of Danny DeVito, asked for a lift to the interstate. Figgo said he’d take him there after finishing an errand.”

Thus begins Fever Beach, with an errand that leads—in pure Hiaasen-style—into the depths of Florida at its most Floridian: a sun-soaked bastion of right-wing extremism, white power, greed, and corruption. Figgo, it turns out, is the only hate-monger ever to be kicked out of the Proud Boys for being too dumb and incompetent. On January 6, 2021 he thought he was defacing a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, but he wound up spreading feces all over a statue of James Zacharia George, a Civil War Confederate war leader.

Figgo's already messy life is about to get more complicated, thanks to two formidable adversaries. Viva Morales is a newly transplanted Floridian, a clever woman recently taken to the cleaners by her ex-husband, now working at the Mink Foundation, a supposedly philanthropic organization, and renting a room in Figgo’s apartment because there’s no place else she can afford. Twilly Spree has an anger management problem, especially when it comes to those who deface the environment, and way too many inherited millions of dollars. He's living alone a year after his dog died, two years after he sank a city councilman’s party barge, and three years after his divorce.

Viva and Twilly are plunged into a mystery—involving dark money and darker motives—they are determined to solve, and become entangled in a world populated by some of Hiaasen’s most outrageous characters: Claude and Electra Mink—billionaire philanthropists with way too much plastic surgery and a secret right-wing agenda—and Congressman Clure Boyette—who dreams of being Florida’s (and maybe America’s) most important politician. The only things standing in his way are his love for hookers and young girls, and his total lack of intelligence. We meet Noel Kristianson—a Scandinavian agnostic injured when Figgo thinks he’s a Jewish threat to humanity and runs him over with his car; Jonus Onus—Figgo’s partner in white power idiocy; and many, many more. Hiaasen ties them all together and delivers them to their appropriate fates, in his wildest and most entertaining novel to date.

©2025 Carl Hiaasen (P)2025 Random House Audio
Literature & Fiction Mystery Funny Witty War Divorce Florida
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Critic reviews

"Hiaasen is working in a grand tradition that stretches back to Mikhail Bulgakov satirizing Stalinism and Charlie Chaplin mocking Hitler. At his best, he can pack a paragraph with so many little parodic bangs that it feels like a fireworks display when the explosions come so fast you stop saying “Ahhh” and just stand in slack-jawed bedazzlement…. While white-shoe lawyers, university presidents and media moguls cower before the MAGA assaults on American democracy and decency, this mischievous 72-year-old writer is fighting back with every political gag and sex joke he can get his hands on.”Ron Charles, The Washington Post

"Nearly 40 years and 20-plus books later, what was happening to Florida is now happening to the entire country. The United States is being despoiled, corrupted, perverted, bulldozed into a playground for the wealthy. The archetype Hiaasen helped invent, the Florida Man, was once just an overconfident moron who, say, drowned while wrestling a gator for his beer. Now America is run by Florida Men. No satirist arrived at our dystopian moment better prepared than Carl Hiaasen. The bad guys in Hiaasen’s books have always been dangerous and mockable. These days they’re more dangerous than ever, and an infuriated Hiaasen mocks them just as viciously as they deserve—punishes them in ways that, thus far, the real world has been unable to do. At age 72, unexpectedly more relevant than he’s ever been, Carl Hiaasen is on a hot streak that rivals his early career. Fever Beach is among Hiaasen’s best novels, because it faces the horrors of our stupid times and portrays them in all their grotesquerie. . . . Forty years ago, Carl Hiaasen started writing novels because he was upset about what he saw happening to his own little corner of the world. These days, he might be the only writer mean enough, and funny enough, to chronicle what’s happening to us all."Dan Kois, Slate

"Heavily plotted but peppily paced, bursting with quips and blazing with anger...”Justin Taylor, The New York Times Book Review

Hilarious Characters • Witty Storytelling • Terrific Reader • Biting Satire • Outrageous Scenarios • Quick Read
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Didn’t like the storyline! Too many messed up people doing horrible things! Usually his books are humorous, not this one!

Not the usual Hiaasen story!

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Fun read! Enjoyed colorful characters and the poking fun of those easy led.
Full of laughs and surprises

Keeps getting better and better

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While being assaulted by the news of Trump and Netanyahu taking us to war I enjoyed a brief moment of well written before ?????

Fun escape

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One of my favorite authors and he did not disappoint. Witty and hilarious. I couldn’t stop listening and laughing. I highly recommend.

Fantastic

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Great voice acting and usual outrageous characters and story. Can’t say it encourages me to return to Florida any time soon.


Carl never disappoints!

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It was so very funny. It was also was very timely for the crazy world we live in.

Funny

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Loved everything about it, as always! Hoping Twilly and Viva make an appearance in future books.

Classic Carl!!

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When you need relief from the unrelenting horror of American today, Hiaasen will rescue you.

Irony & Satire to make you snicker

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Only someone buying into MAGA world not find this a funny book. I laughed out loud as is normal for books by this author.

Timely themes

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Fever Beach is a great read with hilarious characters. Wonderfully portrayed by the narrator.
Ironic justice!

Another Carl Hiasan classic!

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