Bad Monkey: Book vs. Series
Bill Lawrence's 2024 series Bad Monkey adapts Carl Hiaasen's book. Vince Vaughn plays Andrew Yancy, a former detective whose restaurant-inspection job is interrupted by a suspicious severed arm.
About the book and the TV show
- Author
- Carl Hiaasen
- Year
- 2013
- Pages
- 336Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 11 hr 25 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Arte Johnson
Andrew Yancy sees a severed arm as a possible route back to police work after his demotion to restaurant inspections in the Florida Keys. The official explanation of a boating accident does not convince him. Following his suspicions brings him into a scheme involving a widow, property developers and people in the Bahamas whose lives are being disrupted by outsiders looking for profit.
- Creator
- Bill Lawrence
- Year
- 2024
- Episode
- 46 min
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 10
- Network
- Apple TV
- Cast
- Vince Vaughn, Natalie Martinez, Rob Delaney, Meredith Hagner
- Genre
- comedy
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
In the Florida Keys, Andrew Yancy and medical examiner Rosa Campesino follow the trail of a severed arm while its owner's family offers conflicting accounts of what happened. Across the water in the Bahamas, fisherman Neville Stafford faces threats from people pursuing their own profitable plans. The two stories converge around a scheme that treats both people and their surroundings as expendable.
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