The Exterminators (Assassin Bug Thrillers) - Softcover

Fitzhugh, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590585429 ISBN 13: 9781590585429

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2012

Synopsis

All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof. All he had to do was survive a half dozen assassination attempts, pull a ten million dollar con on a Bolivian drug lord, and then fall off the face of the earth with his family and his new best friend, Klaus. Six years later, they've surfaced in Oregon where they are continuing to work on an all-natural means of pest control.

Bob and Klaus are using advanced gene sequencers to consolidate the perfect insect-killing traits into one deadly bug. But all this serious DNA tampering is expensive and they're running low on funds. But who will invest? The interested outfit turns out to be a front for an agency of the Department of Defense, and they want to enlist Bob, Klaus, and the bugs in the War on Terror. Things go swimmingly until that Bolivian drug lord discovers he was conned: he offers twenty million to whomever kills Bob and Klaus. Some of the world's best assassins descend on Hollywood and the weirdness reaches an apocalyptic level....

About this title

About the Author:

Bill Fitzhugh is the award-winning author of eight satiric crime novels. The New York Times called him "a strange and deadly amalgam of screenwriter and comic novelist. His facility and wit, and his taste for the perverse, put him in a league with Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard." Fitzhugh's debut novel, Pest Control, was one of Amazon's Top 50 mysteries in 1997; it has been translated into half a dozen languages, produced as a stage musical, and a German radio show. Warner Brothers owns the film rights. Since 2005, Fitzhugh has also written, produced, and hosted "Fitzhugh's All Hand Mixed Vinyl" on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio's Deep Tracks channel. He is one of only three outside hosts on Deep Tracks. The other two are Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. http://billfitzhugh.com/

Review:

"A crystal-clear snapshot of the absurd times in which we live." (Steve Brewer, author of The Big Wink)

"An hysterical satire on politics, religion, Hollywood, and insects." (Tim Dorsey, author of Electric Barracuda)

"Wild and clever fun." (Carl Hiaasen, New York Times best-selling author)

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1590585429
• ISBN 13: 9781590585429
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250