Bad Monkey

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

A wickedly funny novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me in which the greedy, the corrupt, and the degraders of what’s left of pristine Florida—now, of the Bahamas as well—get their comeuppance.

“[A] comedic marvel … [Hiaasen] hasn’t written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip.”—The New York Times

Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig (it’s not called the roach patrol for nothing). But first—this being Hiaasen country—Yancy must negotiate an obstacle course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death by her peculiar charms; Yancy’s new true love, a kinky coroner; and the eponymous bad monkey, who with hilarious aplomb earns his place among Carl Hiaasen’s greatest characters.

©2013 Carl Hiaasen (P)2013 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

“[A] comedic marvel ... [Hiaasen] hasn’t written a novel this funny since Skinny Dip.... Beautifully constructed.” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times)

“No one writes about Florida with a more wicked sense of humor than Hiaasen.” (Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today)

“[A] rollicking misadventure in the colorful annals of greed and corruption in South Florida.... Hiaasen has a peculiar genius for inventing grotesque creatures ... that spring from the darkest impulses of the id. But he also writes great heroes.” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times)

Cute story and entertainin

I was in Florida on vacation and this accompanied me. Learned a lot about Florida!

Twists and turns and constant humor.

The humorous storytelling made this novel a fun read. Looking forward to the TV series.

Very Entertaining!

Great Purchase, thoroughly entertaining and fun to listen to all the way to the end.

A Fast-Moving Hiaasen

If you like Carl Hiaasen, this is a fun, snarky, Florida-based tale with a satisfying twist. Read ably by Arte Johnson (of Laugh-In fame - IYKYK).

The Reader Got In The Way!!!

To be honest, this book never had a chance. The reader was so inept and distracting, I put it aside and will go to my local independent bookseller!

So sad!

George Wilson understands how to read Carl Hiaasen. The jewel that is Hiaasen is his outlandish characters in improbably situations which put together make for great comedy combined with serious commentary. With this reader, neither come through.

to be young and unaware again!

If I had never discovered Carl Hiaasen before I could now read all his books for the first time. But, alas, it is not so and so I have to wait in dire anticipation for his new book.Which I liked, but which didn`t make me embarrass my boyfriend by laughing out loud on a plane. That there is my judgement, Okay, I gotta be fair, maybe Mr. Hiaasen doesn`t want to do Skink anymore and aims for something gapping the bridge between his "hard-boiled" stuff (the co-authored books with Bill Montalbano) and his goofy books, which works well, and if i didn`t long for the utter entertainement of reading, say, "native tongue" for the first time again, well, then, firstly beggars could be choosers and secondly, I would recommend reading/listening to/spending a credit on "Bad Monkey" in a heartbeat. Enjoy!

Hilarious!

I don't get the people who have so little sense of humor that waste their time pretending they like an author only to trash it when the don't like it... shut your trap and move on if you don't like it. This book was hilarious in true "Hiaasen style"... no more, no less.

Arte Johnson's narrating is kind of funny and specially loved the Bahamian accents that added to the narration...

loved the book man!

Loved it

Great book and great reader from beginning to end. Loved the storyline never got boring

Good Story; Narrator Drove Me Nuts

The story is humorous and entertaining; if language and sex are an issue, you might want to pass

The narrator mispronounces words, which is distracting. And some of his voices fit the characters; some do not.