Naked Came The Manatee
In South Florida, everyone wants to get a head. But not just any head. A very famous human head - severed and snugged away in a cryonic container. A head that could spark a revolution and change the course of history.
Everybody wants a piece of the noggin: rotund gangster Big Joey G., a 102-year-old environmentalist, hardboiled Miami reporter Britt Montero, Lawyer Jake Lassiter, and a would-be dictator in exile - with ex-president Jimmy Carter and a lovable manatee named Booger thrown in for good measure.
With bodies piling up it's anybody's guess what will happen from one chapter to the next, as an all-star line-up of Florida's finest writers take turns at taking this outrageously original novel to the limit - and beyond.
Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, James W. Hall, Edna Buchanan, Les Standiford, Paul Levine, Brian Antoni, Tananarive Due, John Dufresne, Vicki Hendricks, Carolina Hospital, Evelyn Mayerson, Carl Hiaasen: Naked came the Manatee ISBN 0-449-00124-5 Fawcett Columbine 1998