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Beneath the still blue waters off Key Largo a woman dives into a dazzling array of color. But behind the shimmering schools of fish, somewhere in the shadows of the reef, a death trap awaits. In minutes one life will be expertly, brutally taken, and another plunged into a mean season of fury, obsession, and revenge... His name is Thorn, his world is mangrove islands, open waters, and the ghosts of a too-violent past. Darcy Richards was everything to him. Now, finding her killer is. Wading into a seething mystery, Thorn is catapulted into a nightmare of violence and deception. There lurks a sensual young woman with a hard come-on, an aging former mobster, and a diabolical ex-CIA man. What they all have in common is each other's mad ruthlessness -- and a little red fish that will make some people very rich, and others very dead...
From the Paperback edition.
- Sales Rank: #5937985 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Random House Audio
- Published on: 1994-03-01
- Released on: 1994-03-01
- Format: Audiobook
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 2
- Dimensions: 7.25" h x 4.25" w x .75" l,
- Binding: Audio Cassette
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Publishers Weekly
After a two-book hiatus, Thorn--the quixotic fly-tying Florida Keys protagonist of Under Cover of Daylight and Tropical Freeze --is back with a bang in Hall's fifth thriller. Darcy Richards, the love of Thorn's life and his assistant at best-buddy Sugarman's ragtag security agency, dies in a mysterious diving accident after enigmatically asking Thorn if he's ever heard of red tilapia, the exotic food fish. When he discovers that Darcy was murdered via a paralyzing judo handhold known only to covertly trained assassins, Thorn vows revenge. Following a bullet-dodging introduction to Sylvie, the sociopathic daughter of murderous Harden Winchester, Thorn stumbles across a twisted family tree. Hall ricochets this oddball cast helter-skelter through the sleazy mazes of south Florida's tourist-clotted off-ramps, across the alligator-infested Everglades to posh Naples and beyond. As usual, Hall's Uzi-punctuated prose is compelling. Despite the uncharacteristically bad, comic-opera melodrama of the climactic scene, Hall manages in this quirky, thought-provoking nail-biter to convey with ominous clarity the ecological warning: "The future is now."
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The author of best-selling thrillers like Hard Aground (Delacorte, 1993) returns with yet another violent romp through the Florida Keys.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Like Hall's last few books, this one is set in the seamy Florida Keys; here the brooding hero, Thorn, is out to avenge the murder of his girlfriend, Darcy. While searching for clues, Thorn stumbles on a potential environmental nightmare: someone is breeding a strain of aggressive "superfish," which would multiply at a tremendous rate and endanger the survival of other forms of marine life. With the help of his amiable ex-cop buddy Sugarman, Thorn encounters an array of bizarre characters, not the least of which is Sylvie, a slinky femme fatale who may or may not be a victim of child sexual abuse. Sylvie seduces men she thinks will be a match for her formidable ex-CIA dad, Harden Winchester, who has a hand in the breeding of the superfish. When confronted with a straightforward, no-nonsense character like Thorn, the initially tantalizing Sylvie becomes a bit tiresome, acting the little girl and referring to herself in the third person. Others in this family affair include Sylvie's long-lost mother and former mafioso grandfather; indeed, during his climactic encounter with seemingly invincible Harden (Hall likes to choose meaningful character names: Thorn, Harden, Sugarman, etc.), Thorn discovers all the horrific secrets about the Winchester family. Mean High Tide is a terrific ride through the Everglades, with strong (although broadly drawn) characters, an intriguing environmentalist plot, and a chain of events that will keep the reader guessing. Joe Collins
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Hall, yet again, delivers the goods...
By Jack Dempsey
...Hall, if you are at all familiar with him, is absolutely an incredible author. If you are coming to Hall via Hiaasen/Shames/Dorsey/Barry or even Leonard, a word of caution: Hall tends to use a slightly more doom and gloom approach to his writing. His is a work that is going to have a more ominious (even melancholy)tone to it---no offbeat hijinks to level off the atmosphere. With the other authors, save for instance Randy Wayne White, you get a little humor to lighten the load somewhat. Not here. Here, you better hang on because it's going to be a bitter armageddon.
This is classic Hall. The story involves a huge amount of topics, all of which Hall (like a juggler) never lets fall. There are times when Hall returns to a point/storyline a bit late, but I truly only say that as a word of caution to those with severe attention-span disorders. But, as I cautioned above, the storylines here weigh pretty heavy.
Topics include a mafioso guy with a penchant for child pornography. An under-developed, highly-sexed-in-situations girl who in involved with an incestuous relationship with her father (whom she is trying to kill). The incest-father is an ex-cia masterkiller who is slowly poisoning the stroke-victim-husband of his exwife (incest victim's mother). Not to give too much away, mafioso guy is related to incest victim and exwife and has his hand in the murder. Or does he? How???? Hmmm, for you to find out.
Also include some great government conspiracies and nudist colonies. Now throw in some old fashioned underwater murder and you've got just a wee sketch of what's going on.
Hall carries this off amazingly. Dark subject matter, sure. But a [darn] good story by an altogether incredible author. Other authors could learn a thing or two from Hall. Particularly, as much as I love him, Tim Dorsey. Dorsey has a slight problem with including far too many storylines that are of no consequence (and are totally meaningless in the big picture), and has a [heck] of time trying to keep them altogether. Still, don't take this to imply that you should avoid Dorsey. In fact, read all of his books. I certainly have.
Anyway, enjoy this one if you are up for it. Just realize what you're in for. Hopefully I've given you a heads up as to what that is.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
A murder mystery that very closely approaches mediocrity
By Timothy Ritter
What a disturbing picture of law enforcement in Florida James Hall paints. Twelve corpses of people who worked in a federal research facility stacked up "like Lincoln Logs", discovered by a volunteer fire dept. crew, and nothing leaks out to the news media. No investigation is ever made. Why? Because the "good stuff never makes it into the paper", according to one nudist colony member now living at the scene of the crime. "The truly interesting news, somehow they manage to keep it quiet." We're expected to believe this? That purges going on in Florida are kept quiet? And who is the "they" that keeps it quiet? That question is never really answered, other than some oblique references to the CIA.
Thorn, the laconic he-man hero of Mean High Tide readily swallows this line without a trace of doubt. So too, apparently, did the families and friends of the slaughtered researchers. Yet, in another part of Florida, a "thorough investigation" is made to find the person who carved an obscenity into the skin of a potato.
Now, I'm not a person who insists on absolute realism in fiction, but, golly, this seems a bit much. Twelve people? A potato skin?
Later, an ex-Mafia hood comes into Thorn's house in a quiet residential neighborhood and honeycombs it with shots from a gun that makes fist size holes in the hardwood floor. In my limited experience, a gun that powerful makes quite a loud noise. Yet no one calls the police. Thorn has to be talked into doing this himself by his friend, Sugar, an ex-cop. It's a gross inconvenience to Thorn, who, in his words, is "not up to dealing with police bullshit at the moment". A man of action, he is not often up to dealing with such niceties, for he is usually busy avenging the brutal killings of virtually all his loved ones: his mother, his brother, his lover, his friends, the environment...
All Thorn's rage, however, cannot drive out one nagging problem of plot. The man wielding the big gun in Thorn's house had no motive in the story for being there. In fact, he has no direct contact with Thorn for the rest of the book.
Simply put, huge parts of Mean High Tide make no sense. The assassin with no motive nor connection, the uninvestigated pile of twelve bodies, the other uninvestigated pile of bodies discovered by Thorn later, the curious fact that animals, from squirrels to alligators, copulate whenever observed by Thorn...
While the plot is a mess, the characterizations at least are acceptable, especially those of the villains. The most amusing is Sylvie, a demented girl of 25 who lures men to try to kill her father, an ex-CIA assassin. He, too, is a splendidly evil fellow, hatching a scheme to destroy the planet's biodiversity. His cruel cunning and ruthlessness provides a welcome respite from the tediously macho and stolid Thorn and his equally tedious, though less macho, sidekick Sugar.
But then even Harden Winchester (the ex-CIA hit man) falls prey to expository monologue disease in a scene at a bar with Thorn that is so dazzlingly out of character for the brutal killer that I was sure the referee would step in and stop it. But no. It plodded doggedly on for several pages until we realized why the hit man was so naughty.
There is a climax toward the end in which Thorn administers mouth to mouth resuscitation to Sugar (is there a gay subtext here?), while a few feet away occurs simultaneously what may be termed The Clash of the Geriatric Titans. (Where else but in Florida?) After these and other conflicts are resolved, there remains only the environment to save. To accomplish this, the fish are assaulted by hand grenades (yes, the fish) thrown by the redoubtable Thorn. If you want to know why, you'll have to read Mean High Tide.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A Forgettable Mess
By A. Ross
Hall offers yet another look at the seamy underbelly of South Florida life, this one with a plot revolving around revenge, the threat of environmental havoc, and a rather forgettable cast of characters. The ostensible hero, Thorn (although he's not particularly interesting or likable to root for, nor nasty enough to be an anti-hero) comes across a scheme to genetically modify and breed Red Tilapia, with potentially devastating consequences for Florida's coastal ecology. Thorn is apparently a carryover from previous novels, in which other relatives and friends of his have been murdered, so perhaps the reader is meant to have gotten to know him better from these previous outings. In any event, when his girlfriend dies mysteriously while diving, he and his ex-cop buddy start poking their noses around. This soon entangles them with Sylvia, a stereotype man-eating sex kitten who has a bizarre relationship with her ex-CIA hitman father. Their combined actions and motivations require a rather substantial suspension of disbelief on the part of the reader. This is also required when someone tried to kill Thorn in his house, spending a considerable time firing a gun at his house without rousing anybody in the neighborhood. Of course, it's never really clear how or why this person comes looking for Thorn, much less to shoot at! Throw into the mix a wildlife inspector with a detachable nose, a pudgy retired Mafia boss, a mass killing at a federal research facility that apparently somehow got covered up, a bizarre and herky-jerky climax, and what you're left with is a big mess. Hall is at his best in his lyrical descriptions of the water and landscape, but when it comes to dialogue and story, he falters and often fails.
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