Organ Grinders - Hardcover

Fitzhugh, Bill

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620 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038097651X ISBN 13: 9780380976515

Publisher: Avon Books, 1998

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Environmentalist Paul Symon is pitted against greedy industrialist Jerry Landis--who is dying from a rare disease and conducting secret biotechnological experiments on animals--while an insane eco-terrorist is avenging Earth and its animals, and they all cross paths in an explosive but hilarious confrontation.

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Review:

"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"

From the Back Cover:

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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