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 Pest Control - Bill Fitzhugh
Newest Review: ... he's sacked from his job with Bug-Off, for refusing to use a high dose of poisonous pesticide, he has to do something to ... more  ... make ends meet while he's testing out his special bugs. He answers an ad in the newspaper for a "Professional Exterminator" for a one-off job paying $50,000. What he doesn't realise is that the pest to be exterminated has two legs rather than six. The ad is a coded message for a hitman. This sets in train a hilarious sequence of events involving a motley array of professional hitmen, the CIA, assorted baddies, and a supporting cast of several thousand cockroaches. Somehow, hapless Bob Dillon get...more |
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Pest Control - Bill Fitzhugh: It might make you itch, but it will definitely make you laug ... (342 words)
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Author: Bill Fitzhugh Publisher: Arrow Books Copyright: 1996 ISBN: 0-09-978531-5 (Mass Market Paperback) Bob Dillon (yes, he's had all the jokes) is a New York insect exterminator with a big ambition. His dream is to breed a strain of assassin bugs which will be an environmentally friendly way of killing cockroaches and silverfish and other bug pests unfriendly to humans. Unfortunately, he also has to work for a living. When he's sacked from his job with Bug-Off, for refusing to use a high dose of poisonous pesticide, he has to do something to make ends meet while he's testing out his special bugs. He answers an ad in ... Read the complete review
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