Fever Beach
On sale
13th May 2025
Price: £20
Fever Beach leads us, 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.
Dale Figgo is the only hate-monger ever to be kicked out of the Proud Boys for being too dumb and incompetent. Now his already messy life is about to get more complicated, thanks to two formidable adversaries.
The first is Viva Morales, a clever woman recently taken to the cleaners by her ex-husband, now working at the supposedly philanthropic Mink Foundation and renting a room in Figgo’s apartment; the second, Twilly Spree, a millionaire with an anger management problem, especially when it comes to those who deface the environment.
Together, Viva and Twilly are plunged into a mystery involving dark money and darker motives, one they are determined to solve. Into this web come a cavalcade of outrageous characters, from corrupt politicians to white power idiots, all of whose fates are bound together via Figgo in a novel that is both a vicious state-of-the-nation satire and a hilarious thriller.
From America’s most acclaimed satirist and the author of the book that became the Apple+ hit Bad Monkey, Fever Beach is an unmissable skewering of American politics in all its ridiculousness.
‘One of the world’s funniest novelists’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘Scabrous and unrelentingly hilarious . . . the Trump era is truly Carl Hiaasen’s moment’
WASHINGTON POST
‘A comic genius’
EVENING STANDARD
‘He has sky-high standards for elegance, crziness and mic-drop humor’
NEW YORK TIMES
‘He always adds something extra to the mix . . . jauntiness, wit and larger-than-life characters’
SUNDAY EXPRESS
Dale Figgo is the only hate-monger ever to be kicked out of the Proud Boys for being too dumb and incompetent. Now his already messy life is about to get more complicated, thanks to two formidable adversaries.
The first is Viva Morales, a clever woman recently taken to the cleaners by her ex-husband, now working at the supposedly philanthropic Mink Foundation and renting a room in Figgo’s apartment; the second, Twilly Spree, a millionaire with an anger management problem, especially when it comes to those who deface the environment.
Together, Viva and Twilly are plunged into a mystery involving dark money and darker motives, one they are determined to solve. Into this web come a cavalcade of outrageous characters, from corrupt politicians to white power idiots, all of whose fates are bound together via Figgo in a novel that is both a vicious state-of-the-nation satire and a hilarious thriller.
From America’s most acclaimed satirist and the author of the book that became the Apple+ hit Bad Monkey, Fever Beach is an unmissable skewering of American politics in all its ridiculousness.
‘One of the world’s funniest novelists’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘Scabrous and unrelentingly hilarious . . . the Trump era is truly Carl Hiaasen’s moment’
WASHINGTON POST
‘A comic genius’
EVENING STANDARD
‘He has sky-high standards for elegance, crziness and mic-drop humor’
NEW YORK TIMES
‘He always adds something extra to the mix . . . jauntiness, wit and larger-than-life characters’
SUNDAY EXPRESS
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Reviews
Splendid satire [...] One of his best
Creating laughter in a tough world may be Hiaasen's hallmark
Hiaasen is wondrously fertile in devising fizzing plots and zany characters, but also as a comic prose stylist he can give Wodehouse and Waugh a run for their money
If you could use some wild escapism right now, Hiaasen is your guy. In its themes and its wild imagination, Squeeze Me offers some familiar pleasures, akin to a Greatest Hits collection. Anyone who's read him will know what a prime recommendation that is
Scintillating, driven and very, very funny. Sheer comic genius
Will have you crying with laughter
By the evidence of the scabrous and unrelentingly hilarious Squeeze Me, the Trump era is truly Carl Hiaasen's moment
Rampagingly funny satire
Carl Hiaasen remains the undefeated, unscored-upon conscience of Florida, maybe the conscience of the whole country. I laughed and laughed and laughed while I read Squeeze Me - until I remembered, hey, I live in Palm Beach!