To Cure the Humans

To Cure the Humans
by Douglas Lewis
(4/5 stars)

At a time when healthcare is big in the news, this book takes a satirical look at the health insurance industry.  An alien named Peter by accident gets an artifact that allows him to cure all diseases in a being.  When he gets to Earth he starts using it on humans, which gets an alien bounty hunter named Cyril on his tail.  A big insurance company also comes after Peter to take the artifact for his own purposes.

Like any humorous story there are some jokes that land and others that don't.  Which do and do not probably depends on your sense of humor.  The writing is solid enough and for a while the story is fun.  It's just way too darned long.  At 456 pages it needs to be about 33% shorter.  Much of this could have happened if all the stuff about Area 52 had been cut out since it wasn't really that necessary.

Anyway, except for the length this is a good book if you like Douglas Adams or similar authors.

That is all.