Chomp. Carl Hiaasen. The Florida everglades. Alice, the alligator. Reality TV.  Pythons, gators and bats. A boy named Wahoo, a girl named Tuna and a hamster named Floyd all make for a thrilling story sure to keep readers engaged. Wahoo and his dad, in need of money to pay the mortgage, take on the job of assisting Derek Badger, the celebrity TV survivalist star. However, they soon learn how unrealistic the star is and how out of place he is in the raw wild. While wielding snakes and alligators, Wahoo and his dad, Mickey, chance upon a school friend of Wahoo's, named Tuna, who is running away from her abusive, drunken father. They take her with them on the boat ride into the everglades where Tuna, an Expedition Survivor! fan witnesses the stunt double used by Badger when he parachutes from a helicopter beginning his newest adventure. When Tuna makes a phone call to her father, wanting to tell him to feed Floyd, he realizes where she is and comes looking for her with a fully loaded pistol. With heart pounding, pages fly as the reader worries for Mickey, caught in the grasp of Tuna's dad, Link, the boater with a bullet in his shoulder, Derek, lost somewhere in the wild and Tuna, caught in the middle. A sure fire enjoyable read.