The Spy in the Ointment

The Spy in the Ointment

<DIV><B>The three-time Edgar Award–winning Grand Master of Mystery serves up a dangerous case of mistaken identity in “the best spy comedy I have ever read” (<I>The New York Times</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> J. Eugene Raxford is not what anyone would call a debonair man of action. He has no class, no skills, and all the physical prowess of a napping tree sloth. James Bond would think twice before letting him park the Aston Martin.<BR />  <BR /> Though he is a devoted pacifist, Raxford is also—thanks to a tragically consequential typo—the supposed leader of a half-baked and violent radical organization. That’s why the FBI wants him to go undercover and spy on the consortium of real-life terrorists and deadly assassins.<BR />  <BR /> Now, with the help of his girlfriend—who is even more clueless than he—Raxford is about to enter a realm of danger and deception unlike any he has ever imagined. And the safety of the entire world depends on his every move.<BR />  <BR /> “If the suspense doesn’t kill you, the laughter will.” —<I>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</I><BR />  <BR /> “Inventive . . . Wholly delightful.” —<I>The New York Times</I><BR />  <BR /> “No writer can excel Donald E. Westlake . . . but he has excelled himself . . . If you miss it, you’ll regret it.” —<I>Los Angeles Times</I><BR />  <BR /><B>Praise for Donald E. Westlake</B><BR /> “Westlake has no peer in the realm of comic mystery novelists.” —<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I><BR />  </DIV>