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Everybody Shrugged Kindle Edition
Hold tight to your car, French fries, beer, cigarettes, fluoride toothpaste, sexy underwear, bacon, butter, coffee, and anything else that tastes good, feels good, or is fun to do because here comes Congress to ban it. Professor Gardy Lavager leads the government’s campaign to outlaw popular products deemed harmful to your health, and the military is stripped of guns because war is hazardous too. But Major Tony Farina of the Army’s clandestine MADCOM force sets out to serve his own nefarious ends by subverting Lavager’s research in the name of national security while shadowy foreign interests prepare to leverage the imminent chaos.
The ensuing Harmful Substance Race spells the difference between peace and global bedlam as Gardy Lavager fears for his life from enemies at home and abroad.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 20, 2017
- File size475 KB
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- ASIN : B0786KXRPZ
- Publisher : Fantastic Books Publishing (December 20, 2017)
- Publication date : December 20, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 475 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 354 pages
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About the author

Walt Pilcher and his wife, Carol, an artist, live in High Point, North Carolina, have three children and six grandchildren, and attend Grace Church in High Point. Walt holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Stanford University. Although a two-time victim of corporate downsizing long before it was cool (not unlike his protagonist, Mark Fairley), he eventually became president of two major apparel companies in the U.S. (including L’eggs Products – the pantyhose in plastic eggs) and one in Japan, although not all at the same time, and lived in Tokyo for 14 months during which two comedians were elected as governors of Japan’s biggest cities. We are not making this up.
Walt’s comedy writing career overlapped his business writing career, and it was often impossible to tell them apart. Published works include On Shallowed Ground, including Dr. Barker’s Scientific Metamorphical Prostate Health Formula® and other Stories, Poems, Comedy and Dark Matter from the Center of the Universe and the comedy novels Everybody Shrugged, The Accidental Spurrt®, and Killing O’Carolan (the latter two comprising The Mark Fairley Mystery series), all from Fantastic Books Publishing. His non-fiction book, The Five-fold Effect: Unlocking Power Leadership for Amazing Results in Your Organization (WestBow Press), was a First Horizon Award finalist in the 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award competition.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/waltpilcher
Facebook: www.facebook.com/walt.pilcher
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2018All the way from Cao Dung, Vietnam to the U. S. White House "Shrugged" is a story of a dedicated scientist's efforts to save America and Americans from a myriad of harmful substances and the efforts of those who want him to knock it off. Be prepared to laugh. As one of the book's main characters, a gentleman if Chinese and Irish decent might say, "Dis book is a vely good lead."
- Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2021Everybody Shrugged shows us a hilarious world that’s been turned inside out and upside down. Who wouldn’t want to live there? Me!! But it’s a fun read.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2018Clever and witty and chock full of quirky characters. It’s a fun read and if you’re planning ahead for a book to take on vacation, you will enjoy this one.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2018Fresh, funny and hilarious!
- Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2018As the author of this fine, entertaining and hilarious yet thoughtful book, I can assure you with the utmost objectivity that you will love it!
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- Stuart AkenReviewed in the United Kingdom on June 5, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Political Humour with Bite
Humour in any book is a gamble. We don’t all see with the same eyes. Whilst this novel rarely made me laugh out loud, I did smile and grin a lot, so it was a positive experience. That it managed this while dealing with such issues as government incompetence (this in a fictitious USA, rather than the ongoing real incompetence currently occurring there and in UK), narcissistic leadership, the corrupting power of leadership, and the proliferation of dangerous substances that have never been checked for safety, is testament to the author’s skill in writing.
The story moves at a good pace and covers a lot of ground. Often, as I read US novels, I’m confused by jargon. Here, apart from the obvious military acronyms, I was rarely lost.
The characters are wonderfully crafted. I loved the frustrated and repressed Leticia and her forlorn would-be lover, George. Dr Lavager, the criminally insane scientist on a mission to ban everything in the cause of his own glorification, is a warning to all academics who care more for their careers than for humanity. The sad figure of Wong Lee, a man of mixed Irish and Chinese descent, could hardly be other than he is, given his speech problems and upbringing. And the dreadful, arrogant, vain and deluded Tony Farina is a scream. I enjoyed the fact that he was far more worried about the potential use of foul language from his soldiers, substituting ‘nuts’ for all known expletives, than he was about the potential deaths of millions on the success of his mad scheme.
There’s a lot going on in this story. It sheds a darkly humorous light over the machinations of both politics and the military mind. Relationships are amusing and varied, with some romance among the many other groupings. The incompetence of the many secret agencies at work in the world is highlighted with great humour, too.
I enjoyed this book. It’s a great read; a funny book with an underlying serious message or two.
- Walt PilcherReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars You will Love Everybody Shrugged
As the author of this fine book, I can assure you with absolute certainty (and objectivity) that you will love it. It is hilarious beyond words, but with a serious undertone, and you will have a hard time putting it down until you've finished it. And probably even then. It's a fun book. Get it!