Native Tongue - Softcover

"Ruthlessly wicked...wonderful."
--Atlanta Journal & Constitution


"Hiaasen keeps a broad cast of zany characters...moving at a breakneck clip."
--Publishers Weekly


"Madcap and...quite funny."
--Kirkus Reviews


"Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace."--New York Times Book Review

"Rips, zips, hurtles, keeping us turning the pages at breakfinger pace." - New York Times Book Review

Who let the voles out? The precious, blue-tongued mango voles have been stolen from the Amazing Kingdom theme park on North Key Largo by ruthless thugs who have much bigger-and deadlier-things in mind. On the hunt for the rare rodents is Joe Winder, a burned-out ex-muckraking reporter who now works for the park as their PR man. Even as a scandal breaks out over the theft, Winder finds himself trailing an eco-terrorist geriatric, a certain former-governor-turned-swamp rat, and sleazy land developer Francis X. Kingsbury. Determined to uncover the true nature of the Kingdom, Winder must survive this harrowing wilderness-before the natives get to him...