“Warning: Should you decide to read this book, prepare your delicate sensibilities to be assaulted by escapades of charlatans, swindlers, seducers, rogues and impostors.” And prepare to hoot and ...

One of these days someone is going to make a really good movie out of a Carl Hiaasen book–maybe “Skinny Dip,” lately optioned for the screen by Mike Nichols. To date we have had “Striptease.” And now, ...