The title to this one may make your mind wander to some very strange places indeed, but you can't judge a book by it's title or whatever it is they say. This book has also been publish under the title, McJesus. This is the story of a high powered ad executive (Dan Steele), who lives well above his not so meager means. Dan's twin brother Michael, or rather Father Michael, returns from a mission in Africa and falls ill. Thinking that he'll simply need a prescription antibiotics and being the clever man that he is Dan allows Father Michael to assume his identity for a moment by using his insurance card. Everything goes awry when Michael's illness is determined to be more serious and the medical test pile up. Unfortunately, Father Michael's illness turns out to be fatal. Father Michael's hospital stay cost over a quarter of a million dollars and now Dan is being investigated by the insurance company for fraud. So Dan feels he has two choices, 1) face huge fines and go to jail, or 2) take on Father Michael's identity (after all turnabout is fair play, right?) Well you can guess which option he chose. The story also contains a hit man, a disgruntled former co-worker, a hooker, and a gun toting nun, just to name a few.

This was an enjoyable story.

Bill Fitzhugh will make fun of anything. Whether it's the smarmy world of organ transplants, the political system, industry, technology, and even pest control.
In "Cross Dressing", he starts with shallow, treacherous advertising people squarely in his sights but plenty of other juicy targets get blasted before the book is through – including real estate developers, African warlords and the Catholic Church.
Big-shot ad exec Dan Steele feels entitled to the best life has to offer - even if he has to live way beyond his means to acquire it. But there's hope on the horizon. Dan has just stolen what's sure to be an award-winning idea for a multimillion-dollar account. If he can keep the creditors at bay long enough, he'll get the keys to the executive restroom and all his problems will be solved.
That's when Dan's twin brother shows up at his door. Michael is a Catholic priest with his own problems which are literally eating away at him from the inside. When he needs medical attention but has no medical insurance, the ethically-challenge Dan has no problems switching identities. Then Michael dies - and takes Dan's identity with him.
Now Dan has a choice: go to prison for insurance fraud or take a vow of poverty and become a man of the cloth. Before he can say "God bless," Dan finds himself pursued by a relentless insurance investigator, the psychopathic copywriter whose idea he stole, and a deadly killer from his brother's mysterious past. And, as if that wasn't enough, Dan finds himself falling in love with a gun-toting nun who has some very interesting secrets of her own.
The plot tests the limits of credibility pretty early on and soon decides to go flat out for preposterous. That’s pretty usual for FitzHugh – but somehow this one just didn’t do it for me. ( )

Dan Steele, an up-and-coming creative director in a swank L.A. ad agency, is desperate to make partner. Trouble is, his manic-depressive mother, Ruth, periodically suffers bipolar episodes. Dan tries to help, but he's been living extravagantly and he's out of cash, so when lowly copywriter Scott Emmons comes up with the perfect ad campaign for a Japanese corporate client, Dan thinks it's only fair to steal Scott's idea. Scott goes postal with a .44 magnum, but before he can ventilate his sleazy superior, Dan has an unexpected visit from his long-lost twin brother, Michael, a priest back from a mission in Africa, where he witnessed Church and state corruption and tangled with a local warlord, who has left him with a terminal souvenir of his homeland. Dan switches identities with his brother so that Michael can be treated under his own health insurance, but Michael promptly dies and Dan is forced to continue his clerical impersonation to avoid felony insurance fraud.

And that's not even all the book just to show you how convoluted and complicated things get. Fitzhugh reminds me of Carl Hiaasen, Max Barry, Dave Barry and other surreal humorous authors. He may not be for everyone but he is for me. His distinct voice and wit make it worth reading ( )

I can't even remember what the book was about. Guess that says it all. ( )