Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
The Organ Grinders
Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Bill Fitzhugh
Class/Genre: Mystery Medical
Avon, Aug 1998, $20.00, 352 pp.
All environmentalist Paul Symon wants is to make life a better and healthier place for you and me to live. However, Paul is more of a street corner green philosopher, who blames his own and the world's failures on ultra-wealthy and successful businessman Jerry Landis. He also blames Jerry for the death of his own father. In reality, however, all the money in the world so far has failed to buy Jerry his health as the mogul is dying from an illness that rapidly speeds up the aging of the body's cells.
A desperate Jerry pours his vast fortune into the biotech industry in the hope that he might buy his health back. Of course, he still expects to make money in his new endeavor. While his staff conducts illegal genetic research, Paul investigates, hoping to saving the universe from an avarice evil being while at the same time avenging the death of his own father. However, there are other players with their own agenda in this high stakes game of life.
THE ORGAN GRINDERS is a weird novel that takes ironic shots at industrialists and environmentalists, peeling both sides to a naked core. The characters are schizoid-like strange as they are sometimes warm, humorous, and charming, and at other times just down right loony. Like his first novel, PEST CONTROL, Bill Fitzhugh paints an extremely black canvas that is for anyone who requires their tales to be way off-beat.
Harriet Klausner
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