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“Follow the adventures of a news-photographer-turned-private-eye as he seeks truth, justice, and an affair with his ex-wife” (The New York Times) in this hilarious caper from bestselling author Carl Hiaasen. R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye, is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman’s scam that’s anything but sportsmanlike, there’s a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida—and a lot that’s rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments. Here Decker teams up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit with an appetite for road kill; dares to kiss his ex-wife while she’s in bed with her new husband; and faces deadly TV evangelists, dangerously seductive women, and a pistol-toting redneck with a pit bull on his arm. His own life becomes part of the stakes as the “double whammy” serves as both the lure and the prize—for the most ingenious murder.