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 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.
“...this is one roach motel you’ll gladly check into.”
-Time Out New York
“A sweetly comic thriller...consistently sunny and good-humored.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“This debut novel...hinges on a delightfully buggy idea that takes full comic advantage of New York City.”
-Publishers Weekly
“...a clever and satisfying debut...offbeat, engaging, and very funny reading, it is wholly successful.”
-Washington Post
“This debut novel is...goofy but great fun.”
-Dallas Morning News
“Stingingly Funny.”
-Poeple
“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 very funny and interesting book...give it to someone who needs a good laugh.”
-San Antonio Express-News
“Pest Control is uber-contemporary, a hilarious, running-in-circles blend of droll farce and warped humor.”
-Austin American-Statesman
“[Pest Control is]...hilarious [and] wonderful...Fitzhugh is a funny man and Pest Control is a funny book.”
-Elle
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