Joey Perrone is a woman with a mission. She's just been pushed overboard from a cruise linerby Chaz, her scumbag husband, and survived to tell the tale. But rather than reporting him to the police, she decides to stay dead and - with a little help from her friends and a few of Chaz's enemies- instead of getting mad, she's going to get even.

This is a work of fiction. All names and characters are either invented or used fictitiously. The events described are mostly imaginary, except for the destruction of the Florida Everglades and the $8 billion effort to save what remains.

'The master has done it again, with a rollicking read'--Time Out

'A screwball delightso full of bright, deft, beautifully honed humour that it places Mr Hiaasen in the company of Preston Sturges, Woody Allen and S.J. Perelman... Skinny Dip is a madcap trip through southern Florida, but Mr Hiaasen's geography no longer matters. You'd follow him anywhere'--The New York Times