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  1. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    Erin thought, ludicrously, of how disappointed her mother would be. When one's only daughter is hacked to death wearing a sequined bra top and a G-string--well, there's really no way to explain it to one's friends at the orchid club.
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  2. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    The first time the boy asked when his real dad was getting out of jail, Garcia took the small hand and said: 'Never, Andy.' When the boy asked why, Garcia said: 'Because your daddy shot a man between the eyes.' Andy appreciated the seriousness of the situation. His sister, Lynne, who was either a year older or a year younger, said maybe her dad had a good reason for shooting the other guy. A hundred thousand reasons, Garcia had said, but none good enough. Just then Donna had come storming in from the kitchen and ordered them all to hush up, or else.
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  3. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    Montana turned out to be better than he had expected, wide-open and friendly, with a few exceptions. A desk clerk at the motel in Missoula shot him a hard look when she saw the name on the credit card. Being a Garcia from Miami wasn't easy these days. Some people automatically assumed you had six kilos in the trunk and a loaded Uzi under the front seat.
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  4. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    When Erin arrived, she saw an old man stretched out on the floor. He was surrounded by young medical technicians in blue jumpsuits. One of them knelt beside the lifeless form, thumping the man's chest in perfect time to Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation,' which was playing on the club speakers.
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  5. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    Shad pointed to the book on the cocktail table. 'The guy in this story, he turns into a motherfucking centipede. Wakes up one morning and bingo! He's a bug. Sounds asinine, but it sure makes you think. People change overnight, they're not careful.
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  6. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    For political reasons, the government's payout to the sugar industry was patriotically promoted as aid to the struggling family farmer. True, some of the big sugar companies were family owned, but the family members themselves seldom touched the soil. The closest most of them got to the actual crop were the cubes that they dropped in their coffee at the Banker's Club.
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  7. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    Killian won't go for it. The mother won't go for it. Hell, Davey, I've got no morals whatsoever, and I wouldn't go for it! It's the worst goddamn thing I ever heard.
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  8. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    Would he go for a bribe? Straight cash?''He says it's against his principles,' David Dilbeck said. 'But he's amenable to a free blowjob.'A pulse became visible in Moldowsky's neck. 'Let's see if I understand. Only if the lady goes down on the judge does she get custody of her child?''He says he'll consider it, that's all. 'Brownie points' is the way he put it.''David, I'll say this: you're one terrific negotiator. They needed you at the fucking SALT talks.
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  9. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    Neighbors were divided on the question of whether Mrs. Braden had been excessive in her reaction. Witnesses agreed that Jesse had been a prodigious sinner, and often conducted himself in a manner that invited homicide. The shooting itself was not so much at issue as Mrs. Braden's selection of anatomical targets. The men in the crowd, sober and otherwise, felt that the mere spilling of an alcoholic beverage--and subsequent insensitive laughter--failed to justify three bullets through the penis.
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  10. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    Erin said, 'I'll ask you what you've been dying to ask me: how in the world can you do it?''Do what?''Your job. Dead bodies, day after day. I couldn't take it.'The detective said, 'hey, it's a growth industry. The state could sell fucking bonds.
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  11. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    She said, 'you think I'm a whore?''Don't be ridiculous.'Erin stepped back from the water. 'But you wouldn't want your daughter doing what I do.''My daughter,' said Garcia, 'is not leaving the house until she's thirty years old.
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  12. Carl Hiaasen _ Strip Tease

    Guess what I got in the trunk? An Igloo cooler. And guess what's in the cooler? A human head.'Shad violently expelled the cigar out the window. He wiped his mouth on the sleeve of his camo jacket.'No joke,' Garcia said. 'Property of one Francisco Goyo, deceased. I can't begin to tell you how much gas I've wasted on the case. The fat prick got dumped in a dozen different zip codes.''Why,' Shad asked, 'do you got his head in an Igloo?''So it won't stink up the car.
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