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It's 1973 and the CIA has posted the naïve, earnest Jack Armstrong (back from Nam-A-Rama) to Mexico City, where he receives a surprising visit from former best friend and colleague Gerard Gearheardt surprising because Gearheardt was last seen in the burning wreckage of a helicopter in the Laotian jungle in 1969. The Phoenix-like Gearheardt recruits a reluctant Armstrong for the following scheme: assassinate the Mexican president, blame it on Castro and use the resulting outrage as cover for taking over Cuba (which Gearheardt plans to rename Pussy Galoreland and give to the International Sisterhood of Prostitutes as a refuge). Meanwhile, the CIA's new chief-of-station in Mexico, Major Crenshaw, rides into town on a burro with his own plan: a devout Catholic, Crenshaw aims to hijack Gearheardt's operation in order to secure Cuba for the Vatican. Lurking in the shadows is the Pygmy, a three-foot tall CIA operative, and the habitually naked Marta Carlingua, a Cuban prostitute who's either a Gearheardt loyalist or a Castro mole. As Gearheardt's Byzantine plot unravels in this gonzo satire of international diplomacy, it's all as obvious as it is exaggerated, and it's very funny. <a href="downloads/29Jennings.pdf" target="_blank">Read Full Review</a> </p></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#365d62">&nbsp; <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="448" background="images/head.gif" height="25"> <tr> <td width="100%"><p style="margin-left: 27"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#ffffff"><b>Praise for Nam-A-Rama</b> -</font> <font size="1" face="verdana" color="#ffffff"><a href="http://www.namarama.com" target="_blank">Go To Nam-A-Rama Web Site</a></font></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div style="padding-left:15px;padding-bottom:15px;font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#ffffff"> <br/> <p> <div align="center"><b>A <i>Washington Post Book World</i> Rave  "one of the best books of 2005"</b></div> </p> <p> "Nam-A-Rama has enough surprise, manic laughter and grisly just-born newness in it to earn comparison to Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and...to Joseph Heller's Catch-22."<br/><br/> <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> </p> <p> "The story rips up and down like zippers in a Saigon whorehouse...His lampoons...are miraculously funny. But what moved me to outrage and heartbreak were the pages in which he goes beyond satirizing venal leaders and to write fiercely and humanely as a man who was there..."<br/><br/><i> The Washington Post</i> </p> <p> "Phillip Jennings has...madcap grace in Nam-A-Rama...Portraying the absurdity and grotesque oddity of war, Mr. Jennings rivals his hero, Joseph Heller...in words so beautiful they brought tears to my eyes. Rarely does a novelist storm the emotional ramparts so decisively...[It's] masterful, vivid and haunting."<br/><br/><i> The Wall Street Journal</i> </p> <p> "This highly entertaining, provocative lampooning of the Vietnam War is reminiscent of Catch-22 and David Mamet's Wag the Dog...In this wonderfully irreverent novel, evocative of vintage Max Shulman, hearty belly laughs contrast with chilling insights into high level political machinations"<br/><br/><i> Publishers Weekly, Starred Review</i> </p> <p> </p> </div> </td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#640f0c" STYLE="padding:3px;text-align:center"> <font color="#ffffff" size="1" face="Verdana">Copyright </font><font color="#B9A004" size="1" face="Arial"> ©</font><font color="#B9A004" size="1" face="Verdana"> 2007 GoodByeMexico.com</font> </td> </tr> </table></td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#365d62">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><IMG SRC="images/home_39.gif" WIDTH=43 HEIGHT=28></td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#365d62"><!-- Start of StatCounter Code --> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=555224; var sc_partition=3; var sc_security=""; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script> <noscript> <a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c4.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=555224&amp;java=0&amp;security=" alt="free hit counter" border="0"></a> </noscript> <!-- End of StatCounter Code --> </td> <td valign="top"><IMG SRC="images/home_41.gif" WIDTH=45 HEIGHT=28></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML>