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But one disgruntled operative wants out. Nathan Scrubbs is fed up to the back teeth with the art of alien abduction--not to mention his cover as a Social Security flunky--so when his request for a transfer is quashed, he drunkenly decides to take it out on ubiquitous ultra-prig Banion, who happens to be on TV at the time. The ensuing high-tech kidnap, at Maryland's Burning Bush Country Club, is only one of the thousands of convulsively funny scenes in Little Green Men. Not that the novel isn't a skewed morality play of some sort: as Banion comes to believe in Tall Nordics and Short Ugly Grays, he is quickly removed from every A-list in town. But oddly enough, social and political disaster turns out to be as liberating as the finest alien probe. Let's just say that long before Banion and Scrubbs have a close encounter at the Millennium Man March on Washington, this Beltway barrel of monkeys attains a truly extraplanetary level of amusement. --Kerry Fried
What distinguished literary critics are saying about Christopher Buckley
"One of the best and surest political humorists in America."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review
"One of the rarest specimens, the authentically comic writer."
-The Boston Globe
"One of the best social satirists of his generation."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer
"A superb writer of politically incorrect satire."
-Entertainment Weekly
"Washington's pre-eminent satirist."
-The Washington Monthly
"A smoother, funnier and more refined heir apparent to Art Buchwald's throne."
-Publishers Weekly
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