Nature Girl

Honey Santana -self-proclaimed queen of lost causes - has a Plan.

She''s working on a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference and dinner-time telemarketers. She''s also taking part-time telephonist Boyd Shreve and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress to Dismal Key - one of the Everglades'' Ten ThousandIslands - for a gentle lesson in civility.

What Honey doesn''t know is that lurking in the island''s undergrowth is Sammy Tigertail, half-blood Seminole Indian and wholly failed alligator wrestler, with death on his mind; and Honey''s deranged co-worker, Louis Piejack, now with most of his fingers surgically mis-attached to the wrong knuckles, and intent on revenge.

A holiday to die for? In Hiaasen''s extraordinary universe, anything can happen ...