I am half way through it. It’s Hiaasen at his best. I love his writing style. That man sure can turn a phrase.
The characters are classic Carl. (Mastodon wants to go to the zoo to see the animal he is code-named after. They have to tell him the mastodons are on loan to a zoo in another country.)
All the facts about pythons are true though so you get a little herpetology thrown in. Pythons have been let loose by people who had them as pets — and then decided that was not a good plan. A hurricane took out a reptile farm years ago and the snakes got loose and thrived. Pythons are alive and well in Florida.
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