Book description
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, in The Exterminators, they surface in Oregon where they
continue Bob's work creating an all natural means of pest control. But
now, instead of cross breeding different strains of assassin bugs,
they're using advanced gene sequencers to consolidate the perfect insect
killing traits into one deadly bug. Only one problem: all this serious
DNA tampering is expensive and they're running low on funds. The venture
capital outfit that wants to invest turns out to be a front for DARPA
(the Department of Defense agency charged with R&D for exotic
weapons). It seems the U. S. Government wants to enlist Bob, Klaus, and
the bugs in the War on Terror. Oh, and did we mention unlimited funding?
An offer too good to refuse, they move to Los Angeles and get to work.
Things go swimmingly until that Bolivian drug lord discovers he was
conned out of his ten million. Vowing revenge, he offers twenty million
to whoever kills Bob and Klaus. Some of the world's best assassins
descend on Hollywood and, before you can say “It's an honor just to be
nominated,” the weirdness level reaches apocalyptic levels. It's a
battle pitting the far right against the far left with Bob stuck in the
middle and subjected to some serious post 9/11 thinking. 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.
