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There are any number of ways to approach Hollywood Boulevard, but for pure shock value, the key is to strike at the heart of the beast, right where the cheese factor is the highest: the intersection of Hollywood and Highland Avenue. That's Limburger, baby, with a side of extra stink. With this kind of snappy commentary, Vincent Rubio may seem like your average hard-boiled, cold-blooded Los Angeles PI. But as Eric Garcia's legions of fans already know from Anonymous Rex, Vincent is anything but average--though he is cold-blooded. Garcia's conceit, so cleverly fashioned that it seems oddly natural, is that dinosaurs never really became extinct and that your next-door neighbor might just be a T. rex in a latex costume. It's a twist that allows Garcia to poke fun at our human quirks ("Ankylosaurs have difficulty expressing emotion visually. Think Al Gore."), but it doesn't detract in the slightest from his well-paced, drolly comic noir. In Casual Rex, a prequel to the first novel, Vincent, a velociraptor, gets conned into helping out his partner Ernie's ex-wife Louise. Ernie still can't resist Louise's "lilac and warm oatmeal" pheromone signature and crocodile tears (almost literally, since Louise is "one of those unfortunate dinosaurs for whom the lachrymal glands are still overproductive, even after millions of years of evolution worked this kink out of the rest of our systems"). When she comes to the agency with a story of her younger brother Rupert's involvement in a dino cult, the pair quickly find themselves masquerading as cult members, or Progressives. The Progressives are intent on reclaiming their dinosaur ancestry, or as they put it, "becoming 100% Dinosaur Natural." The smooth talk and the stunning beauty of cult leader Circe, whose velociraptor pores emit a dizzying scent of rosemary, fennel, and thyme (all powerful dino intoxicants), fascinates even skeptical Vincent. But it quickly becomes apparent that something dangerous is simmering beneath the surface of the cult. The only question is whether Vincent and Ernie will figure out what's going on before they become 100% Dinosaur Dead. Garcia's first novel became something of a cult item in its own right. Fans will be happy to know that Casual Rex delivers the goods again; it's funny enough to render the sophomore jinx extinct. --Kelly FlynnRead More

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  • Product Description

    The dinosaurs are back. Actually, they never went away. They faked their extinction, evolved, and now live among us in clever disguises. Some of them have attained fairly prominent positions in society, while others are just your average working stiffs...This novel follows one of them: Vincent Rubio, velociraptor and P.I. And it's nearly impossible to describe, so let's just say that Eric Garcia roars again with this follow-up to the awesomely funny Anonymous Rex.

    "Great fun." (Library Journal)

    "[Garcia's] X-Files take on the classic detective tale will appeal to both mystery and SF readers...a series with dino-sized legs." (Publishers Weekly)

    "Seamless, wonderfully clever world-building, a little dino-depravity, and an abundance of tongue-in-cheek humor to keep things rolling along." (Booklist)

    "As daringly, darkly loopy as Anonymous Rex." (Kirkus Reviews)

    "You could call Casual Rex dinomite." (Gotham Magazine)

  • 0425183394
  • 9780425183397
  • Eric Garcia
  • 1 March 2002
  • Berkley Publishing Group
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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