It’s f#@!ng tax day in post-apocalyptic America!Armed with red ink, and a suitcase full of only the most high-powered drugs, Arthur and Rabia return to the savage United Wastes. Their mission? Nothing less than taking down The Colonel’s slave operation.But when they find themselves separated, Rabia uncovers an IRS plot to assassinate Arthur. She could reach him in time if she weren’t bogged down … in time if she weren’t bogged down with protecting a wasteland child on top of everything else. Arthur, of course, is just bogged down with himself. Like always.
M.P. Fitzgerald ups the ante on dark humor and page-turning adventure in this hilarious return to The Happy Bureaucracy series. Love, action, revenge, and irradiated SPAM. The duo has a full plate of fear and loathing in the wasteland to deal with.
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Who said Spam was useless? The mystery meat has some use after all. Also, be careful of what you wish for it just may come true. No one knows these things more than our hero Author in the story. Just another bureaucrat in the IRS, Author is not a leader but is thrust into the role of one.
With being separated from his partner, and his friend Dinner in danger, Author’s adventure is this book is just as thrilling and exciting as his last!
The author did an excellent job in creating post-apocalyptic America and truely out did himself as a storyteller in this book. Make sure to read this one!
What’s the old saying…the only things that are certain in life are Death and Taxes. Well, Arthur is finding out the hard way that both are being planned for him and Rabia. In the second book of the series, our two heroes are split up with both being sent out on new assignments. The problem is, both are now being targeted for assassination.
This is another great story from Mr. Fitzgerald. I love the snide humor mixed with the post apocalyptic world where nothing is in abundance except dust, and IRS paper.
I received an ARC of the ebook but love this series enough to post a review.
After reading this book, I should go back and change my original review slightly. I think I described it as “fun”. Well… I think “entertaining” is a better fit. There is humor, and what I would call a smattering of satire, but it just doesn’t feel right to call a well-thought-out and eminently readable (so far) series about living in a world nearly destroyed in a nuclear holocaust as “fun.
The characters are, in my opinion, as far from cookie-cutter as you can get. Yet, they are as stereotypical as you can think of. Contradiction much? It is one of the reasons, I think, that it works so well. What better way than having your characters be standard non-conformists in a world of organized chaos?
The story picks up not too long after our two friends and newly minted lovers, have been separated. Arthur is on his way to the front to collect back taxes from the slavers and Rabia has been pair with Dinner, the child Arthur collected on an adult in the previous story.
If you’re wondering why a young girl would be named Dinner, then you really should go read book #1: A Happy Bureaucracy first. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You might pick up a few tips for when you do your next tax return, but more likely you’ll just laugh and cry. But I digress…
Without giving anything away, something happens that sets Rabia off on a cross-country, whirlwind journey to reach Artur before he can come to harm. Meanwhile, Arthur is learning some things about himself that he didn’t know he had it in him to do.
We learn more back story about our new beloved characters and by the end of this installment, we learn that as bad as the situation seems to be, it just might be far worse than is generally known. Enemies just might be friends. Friends might be enemies. And what’s over the horizon might lead to either one.
As before I highly recommend The Happy Bureaucracy Series to anyone who enjoys a thoughtful read, with dumb luck, a touch of silliness here and there, cannibalism on the menu, and pretty necklaces made from the fingers of one’s enemies. Or you could just read it because it is a good story and entertaining to read.
Fear and loathing in the Wasteland is the second book and what a wonderful summer read. Fun, witty read with all the twists and turns we have come to expect from the author. The taxes must be collected, even in the waist lands of the USA. Well written and well developed characters come to life in the authors books. Highly recommend and five stars.