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Already famous in sf circles for his Myth Adventure series, Asprin, accompanied here by sometime mystery author Heck, is rapidly becoming just as famous for his madcap Phule books. That's Phule as in Galactic Alliance officer Willard Phule, thrill-seeking megamillionaire bachelor, who, along with his motley band of misfit troops and his ever-eloquent butler, Beeker, remains stationed on one of the alliance's drearier outposts, Zenobia. In his latest misadventures, an ambassador friend courts his favor to cajole the locals into allowing big-game hunting on the planet. As he tries to oblige, he must put up with a bungled kidnapping attempt, the meddling of his munitions magnate father, the arrival of a hotshot new recruit, and an unplanned visit from the Alliance Ecological Interplanetary Observation Union--AEIOU, that is--and celebrity canine Barky the Environmental Dog. The Phule series is a welcome send up of military sf. Asprin devotees and readers who like their sf light won't want to miss the latest installment. Carl Hays
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Book Description
Phule gets on the wrong side of celebrity canine Barky the Environmental Dog by hosting a group of big game hunters who think they can bag a dinosaur on Zenobia. Needless to say, dinosaurs are not a native species. But cold, hard facts never stopped a Phule. And neither will Barky's cold, wet nose.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
No Phule like an Old Phule, the fifth installment of Robert Asprin's hilarious Phule's Company saga (Phule's Company, Phule's Paradise, et al.), pits the legendary Willard Phule -- a.k.a. Captain Jester -- and his misfit soldiers of Omega Company against their most ferocious enemy yet: a genetically enhanced celebrity canine named Barky the Environmental Dog.

As usual, every villainous being in the universe is seemingly conspiring against Jester and his unconventional company of legionnaires. While General Blitzkrieg -- a bloated commanding officer who is obsessed with dishonoring Jester -- is sending Omega the worst recruits available, he also has his hands in a plot to publicly disgrace the company by sending a rigorous ecological observation team to the planet Zenobia for a surprise audit. The eco-team, fronted by the aforementioned media star Barky, is the least of Jester's worries, however. While dealing with the annoying pooch -- who relentlessly sniffs out pollution and other "dangers to the natural balance" -- Jester must also accommodate a group of powerful high-rollers who have come to Zenobia to hunt native reptilian creatures rumored to resemble predatory dinosaurs. Add to the plot Jester's meddlesome father (who happens to be a billionaire weapons magnate) and a bumbling pair of would-be kidnappers, and Jester has himself one rip-roaring snafu!

The madcap members of Omega Company -- which include Sushi, Do-Wop, Super-Gnat, Tusk-anini, Roadkill, and Chocolate Harry -- are like a cross between the Dirty Dozen and F-Troop. Fans of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels and Piers Anthony's Xanth series who have yet to experience Asprin's wit should give this laugh-out-loud saga a try. Paul Goat Allen

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Phule gets on the wrong side of celebrity canine Barky the Environmental Dog by hosting a group of big game hunters who think they can bag a dinosaur on Zenobia. Needless to say, dinosaurs are not a native species. But cold, hard facts never stopped a Phule. And neither will Barky's cold, wet nose.