Book Rec of the Day 3/1/2007

FUNNY AND QUIRKY FICTION

Peter Lefcourt is one of the funniest writers you’ve never heard of. In this sequel to his 1991 novel, The Deal, two-bit film producer Charlie Berns is washed up yet again. Until he is approached by the CIA to produce a reality TV show, Warlord. Before you can say Turkmenistan, he’s on a plane to Central Asia and hunkered down in a compound filming an Uzbek leader and his family. When the show is an unexpected hit all hell breaks loose. Lefcourt’s books are truly laugh-til-you-cry hilarious and dead-on. Once you discover him, you’ll wonder where he’s been all your life.

THE MANHATTAN BEACH PROJECT, by Peter Lefcourt (Simon & Schuster, 2005)