Pest Control - Couverture souple

Fitzhugh, Bill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099785315 ISBN 13 : 9780099785316

Editeur : Arrow Books Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Robert (Bob) Dylan dreams of a clean way of killing, leaving no harmful traces after the event. A whole raft of underworld hoods reckon that Bob's their man when they want to get rid of their enemies, and they simply won't believe Bob when he tells them that the only thing he wants to kill is cockroaches. Before long, Bob -out of work and penniless - is being offered huge sums of money to carry out assassinations. When his targets all die, Bob finds himself being chased by the Mob, the FBI, the CIA AND the world's top five assassins (who reckon he's doing them out of business). The only weapons Bob has at his disposal are the strain of assasin bugs he's developing, and the mean, deadly streets of New York itself. PEST CONTROL is a great comedy of errors, a gripping thriller and the most assured debut novel in years.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"A very funny and interesting book...give it to someone who needs a good laugh." (San Antonio Express-News)

"This debut novel is...goofy but great fun." (Dallas Morning News)

"PEST CONTROL is an eccentrically comic take on the high-tech thriller...[it is a] strange and funny...curiously appealing little novel of intrigue" (National Public Radio - All Things Considered)

"A sweetly comic thriller...consistently sunny and good-humored." (Kirkus Reviews)

"...a clever and satisfying debut...offbeat, engaging, and very funny reading, it is wholly successful." (Washington Post)

"[Pest Control is]...hilarious [and] wonderful...Fitzhugh is a funny man and Pest Control is a funny book." (Elle)

"Pest Control is uber-contemporary, a hilarious, running-in-circles blend of droll farce and warped humor." (Austin American-Statesman)

"...this is one roach motel you'll gladly check into." (Time Out New York)

"Stingingly Funny." (Poeple)

"This debut novel...hinges on a delightfully buggy idea that takes full comic advantage of New York City." (Publishers Weekly)

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arrow Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099785315
• ISBN 13: 9780099785316
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible