Bad Eye Blues

Dinner with gorgeous aeronautical engineer Claire de Mer holds the promise of heavenly bliss for Wiley Moss - until two manic mobsters toss him on a cross-country bus and shuffle him off to Idaho. Hey, no big deal. All Vinnie "Spuds" DeMarco wants from Wiley, who earns his living making illustrations of insects for the Smithsonian Institution, is "semi-decent pitchas - no smut - " of his eighteen resident cuties, naturally named the Spudettes.
Fun with Laurel and Aster, Columbine and Phlox quickly turns to murder in the hot afternoon, and mayhem after dark. For Wiley, getting out of Idaho alive very quickly turns into priority number one. A raging forest fire is just the beginning of a frantic chase across Idaho, with shoot-out stop-offs at Bob's Marmot City & Rattlesnake Farm and a topless domino parlor, and culminating in a hair-raising climax on the banks of the Snake.