Synopses & Reviews
Paul Symon is an environmentalist who's out to make the world a better place, but he's overwhelmed by too much disjointed information, too much public apathy, too much self-serving talk and not enough action. Not to mention the opposition of greedy despoiler Jerry Landis, a successful venture capitalist who is dying of a rare disease that accelerates the aging process. Landis cares about only two things: making even more money, finding a way to arrest his medical condition. He'll go to any lengths to do either.
That brings Landis 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. Not only is Paul on the trail of this clandestine research, but there's also an eco-terrorist on the loose, bent on teaching hard lessons to people who are under the impression that the Earth and its creatures are theirs to destroy. These forces, together with 50,000 extra-large chacma baboons, collide in a 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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“If Michael Crichton and Carl Hiaasen collaborated...the result might look a lot like this very bizarre novel.” Booklist
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“If theres anybody currently working hard at resuscitating the art of political incorrectness, its Fitzhugh. Library Journal
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“...a funny book that satirizes advances in biotechnology.” Rocky Mountain News
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“His wit and style are as compelling as his tightly wound thriller plots…the result is an awe-inspiring feat. Washington Post
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“… laugh-out-loud funny... Fitzhugh melds deadly seriousness and satire to keep the customer satisfied.” CNN.com
Synopsis
Environmentalist Paul Symon ran afoul of mega-polluting industrialist Jerry Landis long ago, but Paul has never stopped trying to get his point across. However, unknown to Paul, stripping rain forests is only one item on Landis's agenda. To prolong his own life, he's secretly funding research into inter-species organ transplantation at a secluded research facility, in Mississippi. When this operation collides with Paul's crusade, the result is surprising, explosive, and hilarious.
About the Author
Bill Fitzhugh is the author of seven novels. He still has all of his original organs and plans to keep it that way until the very end, at which point he is willing to let the doctors divvy them up among anyone (with the exception of politicians) who might need them. However, he makes no promises about the quality of his liver. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and all of her organs.