Lucky You — Carl Hiaasen

JoLayne lucks lives in a town infamous for its suspicious miracles, but she's still elated when her lottery numbers finally pay off big: $28 million to be exact. And she has great plans for her fortune: to save a rare piece of Florida paradise from the bulldozers.

Only one problem: There's another winning Lotto ticket, and the people who've got it just never learned how to share. When the two militia wannabes swipe JoLayne's ticket, she enlists an off-the-rails newspaper-man to help her track down the trigger-happy creeps and their bewildered hostage, a Hooters' waitress. Getting rich quick is never easy....