Saturday, November 15, 2025

And you can read the hilariously scabrous fictional version in this Carl Hiaasen novel!


Where he is featured as the barely disguised Clure Boyette.

Headline:  New York Times, 11/13/2025

She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter. 
Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for “companionship” with young women looking to make money. 
What followed would set off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of one of the men she would encounter, Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican.

Hiaasen has a field day with this material and much, much more!

New York Times book reviewer Justin Taylor didn't like the book nearly as much as Retiring Guy, a huge fan of Hiaasen since the publication of Tourist Season in 1986.

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