Books like Lucky You

The criminals in 'Lucky You' have the combined intellectual power of a 5-watt battery. Bodean Gazzer and Onus 'Chub' Gillespie are also rapists, white supremacists, and murderers. But even pond scum can get lucky. Bode discovers he has won half of a Florida $28,000,000 lottery jackpot! The other half of the prize has been won by a black woman, JoLayne Lucks, a veterinarian assistant. Bode feels no way a non-white should be getting that. Bode and Chub enlist the store clerk who sold the lottery ticket to Lucks into joining them in their new anti-immigrant militia. Shiner, the store clerk, is even more dim-witted than the two ex-cons although he doesn't have their vicious bent natures. Bode doesn't have to talk very long before he has convinced them to attack JoLayne and steal her ticket.Meanwhile, Tom Krome, reporter, is falling for JoLayne. He knocked on her door hoping for an interview, but she refused. Regardless, he thinks she is something special and he likes her. She makes him want more than ever to find his wife! Mary Andrea has been hiding since he told her he wanted a divorce four years ago, which is an amazing feat since she is an off-Broadway actress! Then, JoLayne is brutally attacked and she comes to Tom for help that night. Will Tom use his resources to track down Bode and Chub and get her lottery ticket back? He will.Then, Tom's brittle boss, Sinclair, Assistant Deputy Managing Editor of Features and Style, fires Tom because he won't give up the lottery news story. Sinclair only likes upbeat stories and JoLayne's story has turned bad. He hates Tom anyway because Tom is the best writer on the newspaper. Then he learns Tom has won a writing award! There is another slight problem - the managing editor loves Tom and if he finds out Sinclair fired Tom, it will be Sinclair who is out in the street. He decides to go to the Grange, where JoLayne lives, to see if he can't talk Tom into coming back. Instead, he runs into JoLayne's neighbors, a couple selling admission tickets to see a Madonna statue who cries bloody tears! They also have a backyard of turtles, and he loves them. He forgets all about Tom and the lottery. As it happens, the turtles are JoLayne's, and she needs the lottery money to buy and save their habitat next door to her house. JoLayne asked the couple to watch and feed the turtles while she is tracking down her stolen ticket, but Sinclair has not a clue of any of this. He simply adores the turtles.JoLayne and Tom are closing in on Bode, Chub and Shiner because they are using JoLayne's credit cards as they hang out in a Hooter's restaurant everyday. Chub wants to kidnap a waitress working there, so he agrees to help Bode recruit more white supremacists if Bode helps kidnap the waitress.Someone else is trying to follow Tom as well. Who? Well, it seems Tom had a little fling with a judge's wife, Katie, and now the judge has hired a hit man to kill Tom! The hit man, a law clerk called Champ Powell, is doing his best, but Tom is on the move and hardly ever home. He decides to mess up Tom's house, but the plan goes awry.Humor is definitely behind every twist and turn in this crazy tale of fortune and love in Florida! The author, Carl Hiaasen, barely has to make anything up, as usual, as the real life people of Florida give him plenty of material to use for his fiction. Lucky us!