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  1. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    Rosa got home from the office at five-thirty. They didn't go out for dinner and they didn't make love. The autopsy she'd completed was that of a girl who had died on her birthday. Only eight years old, and the parents had left her alone when they went to play the slots at the Miccosukee casino, way out on Krome Avenue. The girl was doing laps in the backyard pool when her appendix ruptured, no one there to hear the cries for help. She made it back to the shallow end but the pain doubled her up, and that's where they'd found her--the parents, so shitfaced they couldn't remember where they'd left their car keys.
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  2. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    Quit being an asshole, Nicky. You weren't in the medical care business, you were in the stealing business."
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  3. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    If God was my co-pilot, Yancy once groused to Burton, I'd have the fucking pedal to the metal soon as I left the garage.
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  4. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    losing his hair. "Ms. Chase and me,
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  5. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    cell phone the night he died. She'd obtained this key information
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  6. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    Dragging baits in the ocean was different than jigging for walleyes in the lake back home.
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  7. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    The Dragon Queen was firm: No sex, no more voodoo curses on Christopher.
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  8. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    Only because you're injured," she said, and kissed him again. He pulled her close. "How's this going to work with all these stitches? Do I have to keep standing?" "Well," whispered Rosa, "I suppose you could kneel." Yancy lifted her sundress. "You're the doctor.
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  9. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    he was bitten in the groin by a Belgian shepherd trainee named Kong, and he required three operations, culminating in a scrotal graft from a Brahma steer.
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  10. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    He considered telling her about his years as a big-time smuggler, but he doubted it would improve his odds of getting laid. Once upon a time, sure, absolutely-but hers was a generation that grew up on homegrown or Humboldt and thought Panama Red was a merlot. Gaspers suspected the young bartender would have been more impressed to meet a guy who worked for Apple, or maybe a professional skateboarder.
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  11. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    The victim's hand was contracted into a fist except for the middle digit, which was rigidly extended.
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  12. Carl Hiaasen _ Bad Monkey

    Miami ... the floating-human-body-parts capital of America.
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