Bill Fitzhugh signs THE EXTERMINATORS

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Event:
Bill Fitzhugh signs THE EXTERMINATORS
Start:
January 26, 2012 7:05 am
End:
January 26, 2012 9:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Organizer:
The Poisoned Pen
Phone:
480-947-2974 / 888-560-9919
Email:
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Updated:
December 5, 2011
Venue:
The Poisoned Pen Bookstore
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888-560-9919
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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.

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