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Smoke is a Donald Westlake novel following the misadventures of Freddie Noon. Freddie is a small-time burglar who is caught looting the offices of a pair of cancer scientists, who catch him in the act and force him to serve as the test subject for one of their experiments in exchange for not being arrested. However, immediately after swallowing the concoction, Freddie flees while also ingesting another potion in the office which he mistakes for an antidote. Instead, the combination turns him invisible. As Freddie and his girlfriend both take advantage of and struggle with his new state, the tobacco company that the two scientists work for tries to kidnap him, eager to use him as an industrial spy, while also unsuccessfully trying to duplicate the experiment on other volunteers.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })
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Bait the Dog
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Bait the Dog: Merrill Fullerton is introduced as a healthy man with a bit of a disdain for cigarettes and their effects, and a keen grasp of the situation, then starts intensely talking about using Freddy to hijack the human genome project and start a public relations campaign urging women to abort any babies who might get lung cancer in the future.
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Amoral Attorney: Morton Leethe acts as a liaison between the doctors and Bueler and the tobacco executives and is not only on board with their plans but also suggests several of them (before beginning to feel in over his head, anyway).
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Alliterative Name: Barney Bueler.
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: Jack Fullerton IV declares that he won't be part of any human experimentation for a cancer drug, then orders his lawyer to set up a dummy corporation to handle it.
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