{"product_id":"2940172167461","title":"Little Green Men: A Novel (Abridged)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, \u003ci\u003eThank You for Smoking\u003c\/i\u003e. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in \u003ci\u003eLittle Green Men\u003c\/i\u003e, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits . . . and how much they have in common.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Green Men\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing soon from Christopher Buckley: \u003ci\u003eOne of Our Whales Is Missing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151054192880,"sku":"2940172167461","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940172167461_p0.jpg?v=1763754970","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940172167461","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}