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They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
A weapons project needs congressional support. Lobbyist Bird McIntyre and pundit Angel Templeton decide a story about Chinese agents trying to kill the Dalai Lama might help. They invent the threat, then watch Washington and Beijing struggle with the consequences.
From the publisher’s blurb
“start a rumour that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassinate the Dalai Lama”Read the full description at Hachette publisher description
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What makes it funny?
Bird calls his modest home the Military Industrial Duplex. He also writes dreadful thrillers, while his lobbying work involves selling a project for drones as large as jumbo jets.
The comedy at work
The invented story gives officials in two countries a crisis to manage. Buckley keeps the lobbyists' private ambitions in view as their publicity scheme starts shaping international decisions.
Try this if…
Washington satire for readers interested in lobbying, defense spending and people who manufacture alarm for a living.
Good to know
The title is part of the satire's treatment of manufactured hostility toward China. Fictional characters share the story with recognizable politicians and media personalities.
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