Scat - 9781444000597

Scat (Paperback)

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Synopsis

An hilarious eco-thriller set in Florida featuring a nightmare teacher, a boy on a mission, a stuffed rat named Chelsea, and a motherless panther cub.

When Mrs Starch, the most feared biology teacher in Florida, goes missing during a school trip to the Black Vine Swamp, her class is secretly relieved.
The school principal tries to cover it up as a 'family emergency', but Nick and Marta just aren't convinced. They think it's much more likely to have something to do with Smoke, the local troublemaker - whose run-ins with Mrs Starch are infamous - and decide to do some investigating of their own.
But there's more going on in Black Vine Swamp than either one of them could guess. And Nick and Marta must see off an eccentric eco-avenger, a stuffed rat named Chelsea, a crooked oil prospector, a singing substitute teacher, and an angry Florida panther before they really begin to see the big picture.

Reviews

'Carl Hiaasen is a supremely entertaining writer whose novels also bear a timely message... an abiding belief in the power of the individual to alter things'
Nicholas Tucker, INDEPENDENT

'As ever with Hiaasen, rambunctious humour and twisted French-farce plotting make the book a joy to read, and there's the usual undercurrent of scathing indignation against modern civilisation's stupidities'
James Lovegrove, FINANCIAL TIMES

'SCAT is a funny and furiously fast-moving novel populated by engaging characters and fuelled by a strong sense of moral outrage'
Josh Lacey, GUARDIAN

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