Skink no surrender. Carl Hiaasen. 2014.

Typical Malley - to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online.

Poor Richard - he’s less of a rebel than Malley and knows his cousin’s in trouble before she does.

Wild Skink - he’s a ragged, one-eyed, wandering vigilante with perfect teeth. Also a former governor of Florida. Also supposedly dead.

But he’s a man who relishes a lost cause and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to find Malley.

With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair set off on a breakneck chase, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets and giant ‘gators.