Pest Control
Bob Dillon can’t get a break. A down-on-his-luck exterminator, all he wants is his own truck with a big fiberglass bug on top — and success with his radical new, environmentally friendly pest-killing technique. So Bob decides to advertise.Unfortunately, one of his flyers falls into the wrong hands. Marcel, a shady Frenchman, needs an assassin to handle a million-dollar hit, and he figures that Bob Dillon is his man. Through no fault — or participation — of his own, this unwitting pest control
List Price: $ 13.95
Price: $ 5.45
Tri Sales Marketing HD00010 Riddex Plus Pest Control
- Riddex plus pest control
- Riddex Plus patented digital pulse technology turns the wiring in the walls into an invisible pest
- Riddex Plus helps control unwanted pests safely, quickly, and effectively in as little as 2 weeks
- 1 Riddex Plus covers approximately 2000 sq. ft. Safe for children, pets, and electronics
- Built in nightlight
Riddex Plus patented digital pulse technology turns the wiring in the walls into an invisible pest repelling force. Riddex Plus helps control unwanted pests safely, quickly, and effectively in as little as 2 weeks. 1 Riddex Plus covers approximately 2000 sq. ft. Safe for children, pets, and electronics. Built in nightlight. Just plug it in and its starts to work.
List Price: $ 14.99
Price: $ 5.00
Awesome!,
Pest Control by Bill Fitzhugh is a truly wonderful novel. Fitzhugh takes a classic mystery story set in New York and adds a bunch of weird charachters and plot twists. The book is about an exterminator and his family. The exterminator is appalled by the use of pesticides to kill bugs and is creating his own all natural method using his genetically engineered assasin bugs. He quits his job and sees an ad in the paper offering 50,000 bucks for an extermination job. He sends in a resume and is given the job, unaware that his victim is to be a swiss millionaire. The guy dies anyway, and asassins around the world flock to NY to eliminate their new competitor. Klaus, a soft-hearted crack asassin, befriends him, and the rest of the story is a hilarious chase through the big apple. The book is often found under mystery in bookstores, but it is really a comedy. This book is definetly a read for anyone with a sense of humor!
Was this review helpful to you?
|Out of Control,
“Pest Control” is a hard book to describe. I have to admit there are some truly hilarious scenes and situations in the book, but there are times when Fitzhugh bogs it down with his relentless insistence on letting us know how Bob feels about his work, his wife, and his child. Bob comes across as a selfish, inane, inept, and generally ridiculous man. Each time one of his cross-bred non-pesticide attempts fail, he seems dumber and dumber. But, he’s your hero, and you have to wish him well. The assorted supporting characters are wonderful, particularly the suicidal #1 hitman, who befriends Bob; the clothes-conscious Jean, assistant to Marcel, the hit negotiator; and some of the other assassins, particularly the French beauty who has a hilarious moment when looking for gourmet chocolates in a quick-stop place. Another interesting moment occurs when the transvestite dwarf killer comes on to an overweight, underloved woman, who wants to make out while eating peanuts. This is a rather “touching” and poignant moment, almost out of place in this frantically paced novel. Give Fitzhugh credit, though–it’s vastly entertaining, and you can forgive it’s obvious flaws because it does make you laugh.
Was this review helpful to you?
|“I laughed until my head fell off” — Barzan Ibrahim,
If Robert Ludlum and Douglas Adams had wild homosexual monkey love (not that there’s anything wrong with that) with each other before their individual demises, their bastard love child would have been Bill Fitzhugh.
More succinctly, Fitzhugh’s novel Pest Control takes the best thriller elements of Ludlum’s memory-addled spies and Adam’s irreverent humo(u)r and sensibilities and hybrids them (to verb a noun) like so many assassin bugs in the Bugarariums of protagonist Bob Dillon.
In a world where the top 5 assassins know their individual ranks, and where there are still “exterminations” that need doing, hapless Dillon answers a classified ad in a drunken stupor. An ad to kill a man.
When that man dies, Bob’s to blame, and everyone from a transvestite dwarf to the CIA gunning for him.
It’s a fast page-turner, with at least one chuckle, smile or groaner on every page. Fortunately, the groaners are outnumbered by the smiles and chuckles at least 3-to-1.
Characters are all unique, in some cases (ok, all cases) bizarrely so, as in the case of Bob’s daughter’s best friend’s mother, who has a circus fetish involving dwarfs, bags of peanuts, and… well, really, isn’t that enough?
You have to come into this book with a sense of humor. Perhaps even an advanced sense of humor. Curmudgeons will flee this book faster than an cockroach from a flashlight.
Was this review helpful to you?
|Works…but,
I said it works, which it does very well but there are a couple things that you need to be aware of. These are not meant to clear a house of a heavy infestation nor is this absolutely going to work for everyone….in some cases this will not work in some homes.
Without getting into all the technical mumbo jumbo it works by sending a signal through the wiring in your home. There is then a signal emitted from the wiring in your home in the form of a very high frequency that is only detected by pests for the most part. However, if you have any Rodent based pets you do not want this item as it may cause extreme discomfort to your animal(s). I would NOT suggest getting this item if you have Reptiles of any kind either such as a snake even though I am not certain what if any effect it has on snakes. This device does not kill anything, it just makes the bugs leave your home and not come back.
This device will not interfere with any electronics in your home in any way and will not affect pets such as Cats and Dogs as the frequency is so high they cannot hear it.
Was this review helpful to you?
|Riddex Pest Control,
This works awesome! I got it along with some sticky traps because when you first start using it, whatever is in your house will try to get out and end up wandering around. So we had some roaches by the pool out back and they were getting in the house. I bought 2 of these units, plugged them in and set out sticky traps. The traps got pretty full fast and I haven’t seen a bug since! Much better alternative to poison!
Beware of their official website though. You can find them much cheaper on amazon, including shipping. I was trying to buy them on their website first, but they wouldn’t tell me what they charged with shipping, so I called and it was $43 just for 2 little units! Forget that…shipping was more than I was paying for the actual merchandise! So I bought them on amazon.
Was this review helpful to you?
|Riddex Plus,
This is a GREAT product. This is actually the 3rd one I have bought. They last about a year, but they do keep the mice out of the wall.
Was this review helpful to you?
|