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Автор Карл Хайасен

ALSO BY CARL HIAASEN

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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2016 by Carl Hiaasen

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Limited, Toronto.

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hiaasen, Carl, author.

Title: Razor girl : a novel / Carl Hiaasen.

Description: First United States edition. | New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. | “2015 | “This is a borzoi book. ”

Identifiers: LCCN 2016007926 | ISBN 9780385349741 (hardcover) ISBN 9780385349758 (ebook) ISBN 9780451494269 (open market)

Subjects: LCSH: Swindlers and swindling—Fiction. | Traffic accident victims—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. | FICTION / Suspense.

| FICTION / Thrillers. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

ebook ISBN 9780385349758

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover design by Mark Matcho

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Contents

Cover

Also by Carl Hiaasen

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Author's Note

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-one

Chapter Twenty-two

Chapter Twenty-three

Chapter Twenty-four

Chapter Twenty-five

Chapter Twenty-six

Chapter Twenty-seven

A Note About the Author

For Fenia, always dancing

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. However, true events in South Florida provided the lurid material for certain strands of this novel, beginning with the opening scene. The author also wishes he’d dreamed up the part about the giant Gambian pouched rats, but he didn’t. Those suckers are real.

ONE

On the first day of February, sunny but cold as a frog’s balls, a man named Lane Coolman stepped off a flight at Miami International, rented a mainstream Buick and headed south to meet a man in Key West. He nearly made it.