Summary
Carl Hiaasen: The Celebrity Club
Meet Cherry Pye (never mind Cheryl Bunterman), a twenty-two-year-old former instant-celebrity singer who is trying (unsuccessfully) to get back into the limelight. The only chance of a comeback is a tour where she simply has to come clean, which will surely not be easy after the last incident heavily spiced with drugs and washed down with liters of vodka. According to her ambitious mother and greedy manager, the only solution is a stay in a drug rehab clinic. And now meet Cherry again: in the form of her double Ann DeLucia. Ann embodies Cherry whenever the star is "indisposed", read "with too many illicit substances in the system", and cannot appear in public. And it is Ann who will be mistakenly kidnapped by Bang Abbott, a paparazzo obsessed with Cherry and set before Cherry's guardians an impossible task: how to extract and free Ann and keep her existence a secret from Cherry's fans and from Cherry herself. And the task is actually more difficult than they think, because shortly before the kidnapping, Ann accidentally met Skink, the former governor of Florida who, after a nervous breakdown, retreated into the wilderness and implements his completely private politics and ideas, which in the world of celebrity and business are at least bizarre, although not wrong.
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