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Cross dressing

Bill Fitzhugh

2000304 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2000
first published
  • 2000Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9780099410898
  • 2000Spike · 338 pages · ENGISBN 9780380977567
  • 2002HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780380806348
  • 2010HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9780062041876
  • 2021Farrago · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9781788423328
  • 2005Harper Paperbacks · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780060815240

"Dan Steele has it made. He's on top of his game as creative director of the Prescott Agency in L.A., a jaundiced adman who looks at you and sees a narrow demographic - and a very fat paycheck. His identical twin, Michael, a do-gooder Catholic priest, can traipse around the Third World doing all the emergency relief work he wants. For Dan, doing good means having the biggest home entertainment center money can buy. But his life of conspicuous consumption is about to come to a horrible screeching whoa.". "Just returned from Rwanda, Father Michael is ill, so Dan sends him to the hospital on his own insurance coverage; what's a brother for, right? But when Michael's disease turns fatal, Dan is suddenly facing a prison sentence for insurance fraud. Since Dan also needs to hide from an enraged copywriter whose brilliant idea he stole, the best solution is to take up the cloth and masquerade as his brother, the Father. Soon, Dan is thrust into a world even savvier in the wiles of marketing and mass persuasion than his own: the world organized religion. What's worse, in addition to the homicidal copywriter and a righteous insurance investigator, a shadowy and dangerous figure from Father Michael's past is also advancing ever closer toward Dan. And then the counterfeit clergyman lands at a run-down mission headed by the good-looking and strangely fascinating Sister Peg, who's determined to help the downtrodden even if she has to pull a gun or two to do it. Try as he might to fight it, Peg is beginning to give Dan impure thoughts about renouncing his vow - not that he ever took one, anyway."--BOOK JACKET.

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