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Darkly comic book about the tobacco industry...

One of my all-time favorites,a sendup of mad men and apologists for every sort of evil, including cigarettes and assault weapons. very clever. The younger Buckley is an engaging iteration of the genes: you get his father's wit without his relentless agenda.

Really entertaining, fascinating and sort of horrifying look at Nick Naylor, chief spokesperson for the tobacco lobby in D.C. Throughout the whole book, I couldn't decide if I hated Nick for shoving cigarettes down the throats of the American public while whole-heartedly denying the link between smoking and cancer, or loved him because at the end of the day he was simply doing his job, as he says, "To pay the morgtage." Either way, Nick is a real antihero for our twisted times and this book will definitely make you think twice before ever believing a word that comes out of an industry's spokesperson or Washington poilitician again!