The Organ Grinders - Softcover
Paul is a committed environmentalist. He`s committed to saving the baboons from his arch-enemy`s experimental farms. Georgette is a committed environmentalist. She`s committed to saving the environment from the scum of the human race. Whatever it takes. And Landis is committed. He`s committed to saving his own ass from a genetic disease. Even if it means experimenting on the baboons Paul wants to save. And he`ll stop at nothing to prevent Paul interfering, including taking out a contract on him. But Georgette and Paul realise they will have to do anything and everything to stop Landis making a monkey out of them. And to save the baboons, guerrilla warefare is only the beginning . . .
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"IT'S NOT EASY WALKING THE TIGHTROPE BETWEEN MEDICAL THRILLERS A LA CRICHTON AND ABSURDIST BLACK COMEDY IN THE HIAASEN MOLD. BUT FITZHUGH MANAGES IT SMOOTHLY". -- BOOKLIST
." laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied." -- CNN.com
"If Michael Crichton and Carl Hiaasen collaborated...the result might look a lot like this very bizarre novel."--Booklist
."..a funny book that satirizes advances in biotechnology."--Rocky Mountain News
"His wit and style are as compelling as his tightly wound thriller plots...the result is an awe-inspiring feat.--Washington Post
.".. laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied."--CNN.com
"If there's anybody currently working hard at resuscitating the art of political incorrectness, it's Fitzhugh.--Library Journal
..". laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied."--CNN.com
..".a funny book that satirizes advances in biotechnology."--Rocky Mountain News
laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied. --CNN.com"
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." laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied." -- CNN.com
"If Michael Crichton and Carl Hiaasen collaborated...the result might look a lot like this very bizarre novel."--Booklist
."..a funny book that satirizes advances in biotechnology."--Rocky Mountain News
"His wit and style are as compelling as his tightly wound thriller plots...the result is an awe-inspiring feat.--Washington Post
.".. laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied."--CNN.com
"If there's anybody currently working hard at resuscitating the art of political incorrectness, it's Fitzhugh.--Library Journal
..". laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied."--CNN.com
..".a funny book that satirizes advances in biotechnology."--Rocky Mountain News
laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied. --CNN.com"
Bill Fitzhugh's widely acclaimed novel Pest Control (among a torrent of nationwide praise, People called it "stingingly funny") signaled the arrival of a unique young conjuror of comic suspense. Now Fitzhugh trains his satirical eye on the merging of medical science and big business -- with hilarious and outrageous results.
Paul Symon is an environmentalist who's out to make the world a better place, but he faces too much disjointed information, public apathy and self-serving talk. Not to mention greedy despoiler Jerry Landis, a venture capitalist dying of a rare disease that accelerates the aging process. Landis cares only about making more money and finding a way to arrest his medical condition. That brings him and his fortune to the wild frontier of biotechnology, where his people are illegally experimenting with cross-species organ transplantation in California while breeding genetically altered primates at a secret site in the piney woods of south central Mississippi. There's also an eco-terrorist on the loose, bent on teaching hard lessons to people who think the Earth and its creatures are theirs to destroy. These forces, together with 50,000 extra-large chacma baboons, collide in an explosion of laughter and wonder that Bill Fitzhugh's growing league of admirers is coming to recognize as his very own.
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- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0099279053
- ISBN 13 9780099279051
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