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Robin Cook teams up with the Three Stooges in this madcap cross-country romp by the author of The Organ Grinders (1998) and Pest Control (1997). Rose Tailor, in her late sixties and suffering from a bad ticker, is next in line for a heart transplant. Unfortunately for her, the president of the U.S. suffers a massive coronary, and his devious chief of staff, Martin Brooks, bumps Rose and puts the president at the top of the transplant list. This doesn't sit well with her son, Spence--the proverbial lawyer with a heart of gold--who steals the donor heart and kidnaps novice surgeon Dr. Debbie Robbins. What then follows is a hilarious road trip from L.A. to Salt Lake City as an ever-increasing cast of eccentric characters--from black-ops government agents to a school bus full of Mormon basketball players--gets involved in Spence's crusade. Fitzhugh skewers politicians, the media, the medical establishment, and the military in this riotous page-turner that will make readers laugh out loud. Highly recommended. Michael Gannon
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“Genuinely funny...skewers celebrities, politicians, soccer moms, HMOs, TV newshounds and the military -- but no necessarily in that order.” (New Orleans Times-Picayune )
“Fitzhugh knows how a good dose of black humor is good medicine. No subject is taboo.” (Florida Sun-Sentinel )
“A sick, funny book … for a sick, funny world.” (Kinky Friedman, author of Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned )
“Fitzhugh knows how a good dose of black humor is good medicine. No subject is taboo.” (Florida Sun-Sentinel )
“A sick, funny book … for a sick, funny world.” (Kinky Friedman, author of Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned )
