A review by claudiaswisher
Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley

4.0

Funny! I've begun to really appreciate Buckley's humor. Nick is a PR man for a tobacco lobby, and in the course of his job he must say outrageously false things with a sincere face...and he does. His best friends work as lobbyists for the booze firearms industries. They call themselves the MOD Squad: Merchants of Death. Nick gets sideways with his boss and the fun (and double crosses) begins. Buckley's literary allusions remind me he was raised in an extremely literate home: "Call me Ishmael and hand me a Coca Cola," and my favorite: "The Soma crept in on little cat feet."

This one is really clever and demented. I think these are adjectives that could describe any of his novels. I'll be looking for another one to read. Soon.