Pest Control

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“Stingingly funny.”–“People”

“”Pest Control” is an eccentrically comic take on the high-tech thriller. . . . [It is a] strange and funny . . . curiously appealing little novel of intrigue.”–NPR’s “All Things Considered”

“Fitzhugh’s novel is funny from the outset. [“Pest Control” has] fast-moving prose and a quick wit. . . . A very funny and interesting book. . . . Give it to someone who needs a good laugh.”–“San Antonio Express-News”

“There aren’t many thrillers with protagonists as likable as Bob, who lurches along gleefully unaware of the mix-up that has embroiled him in international intrigue. . . . A colorful supporting cast and a steady supply of absurd situations. . . . This is one roach motel you’ll gladly check into.”–“Time Out New York”

“[“Pest Control” is] hilarious [and] wonderful. . . . Fitzhugh seems maddeningly unaware of the difficulty of writing a laugh-out-loud book. . . . [He] is a funny man and “Pest Control” is a funny book.”–“Elle”

Back in print, Bill Fitzhugh’s “hilarious comic thriller” (“The Washington Post Book World”) includes a new afterword by the author.

Bob Dillon is a down-on-his-luck exterminator from Queens who just wants to make a killing with his radical new environmentally friendly pest elimination technique involving his hybrid assassin bugs (a very real group of insects). But when Bob decides to advertise, his flyer falls into the hands of a European murder-for-hire broker who mistakes Bob for a professional assassin. Before he knows it, Bob’s “competition” targets him for extermination, sending him running for his life from a motley collection of the world’s deadliest and most outrageously eccentric contract killers.