Hiaasen's newest novel is right up there with Skinny Dip and Sick Puppy, my favorites. It is the story of Cherry Pye, an amalgam of Lindsay Lohan, Brittney Spears, and Paris Hilton, and the attempts to hold her minimal talents together as she succombs to every drug induced temptation that gets in her path. Cherry is not the main character, however. That distinction goes to Annie DeLusia, an aspiring actress who earns a goodly income standing in for our pop diva whenever Cherry is too incapacitated to perform for the paparazzi. One Paparazzo, Bang Abbot, kidnaps Ann in hopes of holding her ransom for a swap with the real thing. He wants an exclusive photo shoot that he feels will make him rich and somehow enhance Cherry's tenuous hold on a career.
Like all Hiaasen novels, there is a steady stream of bizarre characters and an underlying environmentalist theme which result in all sorts of bizarre situations and sick, albeit hilarious, acts of retribution. We have an ex-governor hiding out for years in Florida's swamps, the botoxed public relations twins, the psycho body guard who, after losing his left hand to a baracuda, has replaced it with a weed whacker (People tend to take him and his lawn implement seriously), Cherry's enabling parents, and a succession of shady characters who prey on the rich and famous.
At the end everyone gets just what they deserve and the reader is left waiting for Hiaasen's next hilarious dissection of Florida politics,
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