Lucky You [Paperback]

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Witty...colorful...entertaining. -New York Times Book Review

JoLayne Lucks lives in a town infamous for its suspicious miracles, but she's still elated when her lottery numbers finally pay off big-$28 million, to be exact. And she has great plans for her fortune: to save a rare piece of Florida paradise from the bulldozers. Only one problem: There's another winning Lotto ticket, and the people who've got it just never learned how to share. When the two militia wannabes swipe JoLayne's ticket, she enlists an off-the-rails newspaperman to help her track down the trigger-happy creeps and their bewildered hostage, a Hooters waitress. Getting rich quick is never easy...
Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. He is the author of nineteen novels, includingSkinny Dip, Sick Puppy, Stormy Weather, Basket Case,and, for young readers,FlushandHoot. He also writes a regular column forThe Miami Herald. Antic proceedings...[from] the master crime farceur.
People Lucky us - one of the year's funniest books. Hiaasen is truly an American treasure.
San Francisco Examiner
Witty...colorful...entertaining.
New York Times Book Review