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Hot and Sweaty Rex (Vincent Rubio Series #3)

Name: Hot and Sweaty Rex (Vincent Rubio Series #3)
Author: Eric Garcia
ISBN: 9780441012732

by Eric Garcia

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Overview

What if the dinosaurs faked their own extinction?

New in the genre-bending, species-bending, gender-bending romp of a series.

This is the "awesomely funny...cult classic" (Entertainment Weekly) series with the "incredible idea-brilliantly executed" (Brad Meltzer), that inspired Dave Barry to ask, "What would the world be like if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct?

For one thing, L.A. would be even weirder than it is now."

Enjoy the most satisfying rex yet...

Synopsis

What if the dinosaurs faked their own extinction?

New in the genre-bending, species-bending, gender-bending romp of a series.

For one thing, L.A. would be even weirder than it is now."

Enjoy the most satisfying rex yet...

Publishers Weekly

In Garcia's third irresistible Rex novel (after 2001's Casual Rex), dinosaur PI Vincent Rubio is manipulated into working for one of the main families of dinosaur organized crime. The assignment takes him to Miami, where he collides with another dino mafia family, this one headed by a childhood friend. The story line is familiar-an uneasy working agreement is broken, with much bloodshed, when one family plants an informer inside the other organization-but strongly told. Two aspects distinguish this series. One is the outrageous premise that dinosaurs aren't really extinct, but instead move freely about our world, wearing intricate disguises that make them indistinguishable from humans. You can't stop smiling, even through scenes of murder and torture. The other is the brilliant dinosaur allegories that skewer modern society, from Tupperware parties, rules for recycling and wrinkle cream to gun violence, alcoholism, drug addiction and unrelenting racial antagonism. Funny, poignant, dramatic, satiric, brutal and tender, the dinosaur world is a marvelous place to visit. This is sure to appeal to anyone with a fine sense of the absurd who appreciates good writing. (Mar. 9) FYI: Garcia's non-dinosaur crime novel, Matchstick Men (2002), was made into a movie starring Nicholas Cage. He's developing a TV series for the SciFi channel based on the first Rex book, Anonymous Rex (2000). Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

About the Author, Eric Garcia

Eric Garcia is originally from Miami. He attended Cornell University and the University of Southern California, where he majored in creative writing and film.

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Library Journal

As a velociraptor himself, PI Vincent Rubio jumps when asked to do a job for the raptor Mafia. He "tails" a rival hadrosaur first to Las Vegas, then to the racetracks of Miami, where he learns how raptors disguised as racehorses have been fixing races for the Mafia. The scheme involves the usual pain, violence, and retribution, which Vincent does his best to avoid. Series fans (Anonymous Rex; Casual Rex) will know that these dinosaur characters impersonate humans using cleverly made costumes. Ohers may find the suspension of disbelief a bit much to take. A striking fantasy nonetheless-but for fans. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Forget the Hatfields and the McCoys, the Gambinos, the Colombos, the Genoveses. The Velociraptors are battling the Hadrosaurs for control of Miami. Anyone who thinks dinosaurs died out has been fooled by their human-emulating latex disguises. Deep down, Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts are just like p.i. Vincent Rubio, a walking, talking descendant of ages past. Vincent, a raptor suffering herb-addiction withdrawal, has been paid twenty large by Frank Tallarico, head of the LA Raptor Mafia, to tail Nelly Hagstrom, a Miami Hadrosaurs fighting Frank's younger, meaner, dumber brother Eddie for supremacy in South Florida. Vincent's long-time pal Glenda comes along to help, but she can't do much when Jack Dugan, Nelly's boss and Vincent's boyhood friend sidelined to a wheelchair by degenerative muscle disease, is gunned down; when a batch of pretty Ornithos lose their tails; when dissolving powder attacks a dino/horse who throws a race; when Nelly is left to drown as a hurricane looms; when Noreen, Jack's sister Vincent mistakenly jilted back in his herb-orgy days, has to decide whether Vincent should live or die. The streets (not to mention the Everglades) are littered with bodies of rival dinosaurs as Vincent plays all sides against each other, has a minor herb relapse, and finally ends a friendship to end the strife. Garcia (Casual Rex, 2001, etc.) is brutally funny, paying wacky homage to noir conventions while spoofing mafiosi loyalties, AA principles, race relations, and double-agent double-dealings. Agent: Barbara J. Zitwer/Barbara J. Zitwer Agency