ALSO BY CARL HIAASEN
FICTION
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Star Island
Nature Girl
Skinny Dip
Basket Case
Sick Puppy
Lucky You
Stormy Weather
Strip Tease
Native Tongue
Skin Tight
Double Whammy
Tourist Season
A Death in China
Trap Line
Powder Burn
FOR YOUNG READERS
Skink
Chomp
Scat
Flush
Hoot
NONFICTION
Dance of the Reptiles
The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport
Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World
Kick Ass: Selected Columns
Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns
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
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
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.