Weight Watchers meets corporate satire in this debut novel from the
bestselling author of Mousetrapped: A Year and A Bit in Orlando,
Florida, and Backpacked: A Reluctant Trip Across Central America
Through
their Ultimate Weight Loss Diet Solution Zone System, Slimmit
International Global Incorporated claim they're making the world a more
attractive place one chubby at a time. Their slogans "Where You're Fat
and We Know It!" and "Where the Fat IS Your Fault!" are recognised
around the globe, their share price is as high as their energy levels
and the counter in the lobby says 5,000,000 slimmed.
But today the theft of their latest revolutionary product, Lipid Loser, will threaten to expose the real secret behind Slimmit's success...
Aaron,
the hunky Director of Security, must find the Lipid Loser or face
losing his job. Marianne, head of Slimming Operations, offers to help
him, but what she really wants to find is the secret prototype
she's been working on, the Much, Much More Muffin. Meanwhile Slimmit
founder and CEO Nicola is struggling to stay conscious in the magic
underwear she needs to hide her newly acquired muffin top. Her daughter
Emmy--overweight and so deemed "unacceptably beyond corporate Appearance
Policy parametres"--is pushing paper in Slimmit's basement and dreaming
of a skinny life, one she doubts attending Fat Club meetings is going
to bring her.
And so the race is on to find the Lipid Loser and
save Slimmit from certain disaster. If their secrets get out, their
competitors will put them out of business. If the government finds out,
they'll all go to jail. And if their clients find out... Well, as
Slimmit's Slimming Specialists know all too well, there's only one thing
worse than a hungry, sugar-crazed, carb addict--and that's an angry one.
Can the secret behind Slimmit's success survive the day, or will their long-suffering slimmers finally discover the truth?
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
FREE -- US & UK Kindle Edition -- Results Not Typical by Catherine Ryan Howard
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