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Book Review of The Organ Grinders

The Organ Grinders
The Organ Grinders
Author: Bill Fitzhugh
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Paul Symon is an environmentalist who's out to make the world a better place, but he faces too much disjointed information, public apathy and self serving talk. Not to mention greedy despoiler Jerry Landis, a venture capitaist dying of a rare disease that accelerates the aging process. Landis cares only about making money and finding a way to arrest his medical condition. That brings him and his fortune to the wild frontier of biotechnology, where his people are experimenting with cross species organ transplantation in California while breeding genetically altered primates at a secret site in the piney woods of Mississippi. There's also an eco-terroist on the loose, bent on teaching hard lessons to people who think the earth and it's creatures are theirs to destroy. These forces, together with 50,000 extra large chacma baboons, collide in an explosion of laughter and wonder that Bill Fitzhugh's growing league of admirers is coming to recognize as his very own.