- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (7 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752816810
- ISBN-13: 978-0752816814
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,618,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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How to mix a mangrove squeeze: take one part Susi Sperakis, following her dreams; one part Aaron Katz, escaping a stressful Wall Street job and a bad marriage; and one part a group of Russians out to make some easy money in a spot close to the richest source of criminal income they could imagine.
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Laurence Shames was born in New Jersey and started out as a crime reporter. He then moved to the vibrant home of crime in a hot climate, Miami and became a reporter there. He now writes novels full time in between travelling around America in search of tennis and angling.
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Format:Paperback
Shames once again puts together a passable-but hardly noteworthy-South Florida thriller in the vein of Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, et al. This time he trots in the tired specter of Russian mafia types running tawdry tourist t-shirt shops as a money laundering operation for the big bucks they make as brokers for ex-Soviet art and weaponry. Against these cardboard villains are arrayed an ex-Wall Street type who left it all to forget about his divorce, take care of his father, and renovate an old hotel; a Jersey transplant called Suki who's stuck in a dead-end job, two creaky old men, and two nice semi-homeless guys. Through it all there's a kind of stumbling, bumbling good naturedness-which serves to heighten the nastiness of the Russians. The outcome is hardly surprising, but it passes the time and is slightly more successful than two other of his books I've read, The Naked Detective and Scavenger Reef,
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Laugh Out Loud Funny!
22 Mar 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I had really liked Florida Straights, so I decided to give this one a try. And I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard! I kept waking my girlfriend up I was laughing so hard in bed! This book has the kind of wry sense of humor that is so hard to find. It also has sweet, likeable characters. And Shames has left out a lot of the violent nastiness a lot of other writers in this genre go so heavy on! I can't wait for my next trip literary trip to Key West!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
passable comic crime fodder; Shames has done better
28 July 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
'Mangrove Squeeze' is my third Laurence Shames novel (after 'Florida Straits' and 'Sunburn') and is easily the worst of the bunch. Yes, it has the same south Florida setting and similarly quirky characters. But the plot fails to ignite, and the laughs are comparatively few.
In 'Mangrove Squeeze' we have big crime by the Russian mafia in small town Key West. A nosey do-gooder from the local weekly newspaper gets herself in trouble with these guys, gets her boyfriend caught in the middle of it, and ... so the story goes. As a previous reviewer has noted, 'Mangrove Squeeze' does pass the time rather nicely. But otherwise it is forgettable in every way.
Bottom line: useful beach-reading material. But you won't want to keep it on your bookshelf.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
THANKS FOR THE LAUGHS
27 April 2009
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is possibly the funniest book I have read in a while and I really appreciate when an author makes me laugh. The characters are priceless. Fred & Pineapple who live in a fiberglass hot dog on the outskirts of Key West, the Russian mafia with their mispronunciations that had me in stitches, the old geezers Sam & Bert with his "moribund chihuahua." The book was published over a decade ago, but it still captures the essence of Key West and the crazies who live there. The plot is good even though it is a bit far-fetched. The story takes a more sinister turn at the end, which jarred a bit with the overall tone but, hey, 5 stars for witty dialogue and hilarious images of the afore-mentioned characters.
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