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    Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat
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    Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat

    By John Welter

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    The hilarious tale of a Secret Service agent’s professional and romantic misadventures, by the author of Begin to Exit Here.
     
    Doyle Coldiron is just a lovesick guy at heart, who happens to have a submachine gun under his blue blazer. Working for the Secret Service, it’s his job to protect the president—but after a disgruntled White House chef decides to serve Spam at a state dinner, Doyle fails to throw himself in front of the wretched luncheon meat, and gets demoted.
     
    What’s really got Doyle down, though, is his unrequited passion for the president’s already-married secretary. To console himself, he plans covert games of “spookball” against the CIA, and drowns his sorrows at a Washington bar. However, his chance for redemption just may arise as he confronts a series of events involving terrorists, animal rights activists, a Stealth kite, and a tipsy ambassador who plays Cole Porter tunes . . .
     
    From John Welter—described by Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, as “among the wittiest American novelists writing today”—this is a rollicking look at life, love, and lunacy behind the scenes in DC.
     
    “Welter retains firm control of the true story in his novel: one man’s search for love in the ’90s. Doyle’s quest for romantic and spiritual love is bittersweet, surprisingly poignant, and, guided by Welter’s sure hand, always emotionally true. Sometimes silly and frequently downright strange, this novel is full of insights into modern love that sneak up on the reader amid a lot of pleasantly off-kilter zaniness, making Night of the Avenging Blowfish a fun and satisfying read.” —Kirkus Reviews
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 5, 1994
    ISBN9781565128040
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    Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat
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    John Welter

    John Welter began his writing career as a newspaper copy boy, buying cigarettes for the city editor. Since then he has worked as a reporter at newspapers in the Midwest and the South and published humor sketches in The Atlantic. His first book, Begin to Exit Here: A Novel of the Wayward Press, was widely praised and selected by Library Journal as a "Word of Mouth" recommendation for 1991. He lives in North Carolina, where he writes a humor column for The Chapel Hill Herald and is a manager for a mail-order company. He has never been a Secret Service agent, but sometimes wears dark glasses.

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    • 3/5
      The story of a secret service agent rather obsessively looking for love with a married woman, while dealing with the fallout from a Spam incident that really wasn't his fault. There's a lot of witty banter and amusing asides, and a plot that doesn't really go anywhere. Very funny in places, to be sure, but probably not destined to become a classic, no matter how much it reminded me of Catch 22 in places. And as a warning to folks who prefer to be warned about such things, there are a couple of very graphic sex scenes. (But, interestingly, no real violence.) I'll have to remember Welter the next time I'm looking for a light, funny read.
    • 4/5
      Without a doubt, one of the laugh-out-loud funniest things I have ever read. Covert baseball games. The Spam Incident. The Secret Service has never been so amusing.