Cross Dressing
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Big-shot ad exec Dan Steele feels entitled to the best life has to offer -- even if he has to live way beyond his means to acquire it. But there's hope on the horizon. Dan has just stolen what's sure to be an award-winning idea for a multimillion-dollar account. If he can keep the creditors at bay long enough, he'll get the keys to the executive restroom and all his problems will be solved.
Unfortunately, that's when his brother, a Catholic priest, shows up at Dan's door in need of a loan to pay for some essential medical attention. Being both financially and morally challenged, Dan hands over his insurance card instead of his credit card. But it's too late. After running up a bill for $300,000, Father Michael goes the way of all flesh.
Now Dan has a choice: go to prison for insurance fraud or take a vow of poverty and become a man of the cloth. Before he can say "God bless," Dan finds himself pursued by a relentless insurance investigator, the psychopathic copywriter whose idea he stole, and a deadly killer from his brother's mysterious past. And, as if that wasn't enough, Dan finds himself falling in love with a gun-toting nun. Let us pray.
Bill Fitzhugh
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. http://billfitzhugh.com/
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Reviews for Cross Dressing
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dan is a scumbag advertising agent who is more concerned with acquiring wealth and getting laid than with taking care of his senile mother or doing good in the world. Then, his twin brother and Catholic priest Michael arrives back from a mission in Africa. Some greed-inspired hijinks ensue, and when Michael dies, Dan assumes his identity and goes to work in an impoverished care facility run by a nun.Ultimately, this book is silly and funny and entertaining. But there were some things about it that I found off-putting. The biggest problem is that it turns out to be a "boy gets girl" story, even though the boy is a priest and the girl is a nun. Not every story needs to end with a sexual relationship. Even though the book makes fun of movies like Pretty Woman for romanticizing prostitution, it also views sex work through rose-colored glasses.All in all, reasonably entertaining, but certainly not fine literature.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5After reading Pest Control, I picked up Organ Grinders and hated it. This book was a triumphant return to the style of writing and humor that made Pest Control such a great book. The character development is excellent. At the beginning of the novel, Dan Steele, the main character is a prototypical yuppie executive whose thirst for material possessions exceeds all other desires in his life. By the end, he cares about his fellow man and not as much about how many toys he can amass. The aspect of the novel that really shines, though, is how Fitzhugh portrays the residents of the Care Center. While most authors might stereotype the elderly as cranky old codgers, Fitzhugh portrays them as the people who society forgot and who are desperately trying to cling to the Care Center, the last meaningful thing in their lives. While the ending seems kind of rushed, it is satisfying. This novel is a return to the style of Pest Control, and is all the better for it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This guy just gets better with every book. This is his third. Dan Steele is at the top of his game - the ad game. His twin brother, the priest, is hitting some career snags himself. Yes, 'twin' is the operable word there. Fitzhugh is a pretty funny guy in word and plot.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dan Steele, an up-and-coming creative director in a swank L.A. ad agency, is desperate to make partner. Trouble is, his manic-depressive mother, Ruth, periodically suffers bipolar episodes. Dan tries to help, but he's been living extravagantly and he's out of cash, so when lowly copywriter Scott Emmons comes up with the perfect ad campaign for a Japanese corporate client, Dan thinks it's only fair to steal Scott's idea. Scott goes postal with a .44 magnum, but before he can ventilate his sleazy superior, Dan has an unexpected visit from his long-lost twin brother, Michael, a priest back from a mission in Africa, where he witnessed Church and state corruption and tangled with a local warlord, who has left him with a terminal souvenir of his homeland. Dan switches identities with his brother so that Michael can be treated under his own health insurance, but Michael promptly dies and Dan is forced to continue his clerical impersonation to avoid felony insurance fraud. And that's not even all the book just to show you how convoluted and complicated things get. Fitzhugh reminds me of Carl Hiaasen, Max Barry, Dave Barry and other surreal humorous authors. He may not be for everyone but he is for me. His distinct voice and wit make it worth reading