#Squeeze me code
Her code name is Mockingbird, and she is in her own way as formidable a woman as Angie, though not nearly as likable as the wildlife wrangler. The chief of staff wasn’t brave enough to tell the President the truth, so he cooked up a story that the zoo’s beloved mastodon herd was on loan to a wildlife park in Christchurch, New Zealand.” “On only his second day in the White House, the President had ordered his chief of staff to arrange a trip to the National Zoo for a close-up look at a real mastodon. His is Mastodon, which he loves because it sounds tough. This one is “deep into a post-meal stupor” and has an unusually large lump in its midsection.Īlthough it’s clear who they are, Hiaasen refers to the POTUS and FLOTUS only by their Secret Service code names. She runs a one-person “critter-removal company, Discreet Captures.” Usually clients want raccoons wrestled out of their attics, but this time what the very nervous club manager wants her to pull out of a tree is one of the largest Burmese pythons she’s ever seen. Police drag the koi pond and review surveillance videos, but Kiki Pew and her striking necklace of rare pink pearls (harvested from Queen conchs) seem to have vanished without a trace.Ī few days later, a young woman named Angie Armstrong is summoned to the club. The missing woman is Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, twice widowed and hugely rich at age 72. By the time her tipsy friends realize she’s missing, all that’s found on the bank of the koi pond is her beaded clutch, “her martini glass and a broken rose-colored tab of Ecstasy.” One attendee leaves her $50,000 table and several guests and wanders off into the grounds.
Squeeze Me opens on a January night at a charity gala at the Lipid House in Palm Beach. He has published several collections of his columns, a memoir, a nonfiction book about the Disney empire and a gift book for graduates, Assume the Worst, illustrated by Roz Chast. Squeeze Me is Hiaasen’s 15th novel for adults he’s also written half a dozen books for kids, including the Newbery Award winner Hoot. Related: Join us for a live virtual interview with Carl Hiaasen on Sept.
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