Book Description
Little Green Men - In 1994, Christopher Buckley
published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic
novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley
returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little
Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens
and pundits . . . and how much they have in common.
The reluctant hero of this hilarious novel is John Oliver
Banion, a stuffy Washington talk-show host, whose privileged
life is thrown into upheaval when aliens abduct him from his
exclusive country-club golf course.
But were his gray-skinned captors aliens . . . or
something far more sinister? After Banion is abducted
again-this time in Palm Springs-he believes he has been
chosen by the extraterrestrials to champion the most
important cause of the millennium, and he embarks on a
crusade, appearing before a convention of UFO believers and
demanding that Congress and the White House seriously
investigate UFOs. His friends and family suspect that Banion
is having some kind of manic-depressive midlife crisis and
urge him to seek therapy before his credibility as a pillar
of the punditocracy is ruined.
So John Oliver Banion must choose: keep his establishment
status or become the leader of millions of impassioned and
somewhat scruffy new friends who want to expose the
government's secret alien agenda.
Little Green Men proves once and for all that the truth is
out there. Way out there. And it reaffirms Christopher
Buckley's status as the funniest humanoid writer in the
universe.
