Hot and Sweaty Rex
A Dinosaur Mafia Mystery
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Publisher Description
Vincent Rubio, the most hard-boiled reptile detective ever, is back on the case in the third installment of Eric Garcia’s cult mystery series about dinosaurs who are still alive and committing crimes in L.A. Rubio’s latest assignment: the dinosaur mafia.
As fans of Anonymous Rex and Casual Rex already know, the dinosaurs faked their extinction and live among us, disguising themselves as humans in elaborately designed latex costumes. Anyone could be a dinosaur. Your podiatrist. The crotchety old man who lives next door. Julia Roberts, it is well known, is actually a Stegosaur. When the head of the Raptor mafia asks Vincent Rubio to perform a service, he has no choice but to head for Miami to investigate a team of Hadrosaurs who are muscling in on Raptor territory. It’s dangerous business. Make the wrong move and your tail gets chopped off.
Eric Garcia’s third Rex novel is a wildly entertaining mystery and an instant classic of dinosaur mafia fiction—further proof that this gifted author really knows where the bones are buried.
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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. 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).
