Book description
Bob Dillon can't get a break. A down-on-his-luck exterminator, all he
wants is his own truck with a big fiberglass bug on top - and success
with his radical new, environmentally friendly pest-killing technique.
So Bob decides to advertise. Unfortunately, one of his flyers falls into
the wrong hands. Marcel, a shady Frenchman, needs an assassin to handle
a million-dollar hit, and he figures that Bob Dillon is his man. Through
no fault - or participation - of his own, this unwitting pest controller
from Queens has become a major player in the dangerous world of contract
murder. And now Bob's running for his life through the wormiest sections
of the Big Apple - one step ahead of a Bolivian executioner, a homicidal
transvestite dwarf, meatheaded CIA agents, cabbies packing serious heat
… and the world's number-one hit man, who might just turn out to be the
best friend Bob's got. 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.
