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Lucky You

Carl Hiaasen

1997353 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1997
first published
  • 1997Published by Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. · ENGISBN 9780679774518
  • 1997Alfred A. Knopf · 353 pages · ENGISBN 9780333690703
  • 1997Alfred A. Knopf · 353 pages · ENGISBN 9780679454441
  • 1998London Macmillan 1998. · 353 pagesISBN 9780333715505
  • 2003Clipper Large Print · 564 pages · ENGISBN 9781841975917
  • 2005Grand Central Publishing · 464 pages · ENGISBN 9780446695657
  • 1999Pan Books · 496 pagesISBN 9780330369039
  • 1998Vision · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9780446604659

Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles - the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery. Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who believe they're entitled to the whole $28 million jackpot. And they need it quickly, to start their own underground militia before NATO troops invade America. But JoLayne Lucks has her own plans for the Lotto money - an Eden-like forest in Grange must be saved from strip-malling. When Bode and Chub brutally assault her and steal her ticket, JoLayne vows to track them down, take it back - and get revenge. The only one who can help is Tom Krome, a big-city investigative journalist now bitterly consigned to writing frothy features for a midsized central Florida newspaper. With a persuasive nudge from JoLayne, Krome is about to become part of a story that's bigger and more bizarre than anything he's ever covered.

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