The Monkey Handlers

{{Short description|Thriller novel by G. Gordon Liddy}}

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The Monkey Handlers is a 1990 thriller novel by G. Gordon Liddy, published by St. Martin's Press.

A real estate agent in the Hudson Valley region, Michael Stone, who formerly served as a Navy SEAL, has to stop a group of people from West Germany who experiment on animals as well as some Islamists. He had served with Saul, whose sister Sara Rosen faced arrest for trespassing in a pharmaceutical facility owned by the West German company Riegar, headed by Walter Hoess.

Publishers Weekly stated that "Liddy's touch is deft" though the book had an "abrupt" ending.{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-05127-3|title=The Monkey Handlers|work=Publishers Weekly|date=1990-10-01|accessdate=2019-02-22}}

Kirkus Reviews stated that the novel "appeals powerfully to the frustrations and fantasies of audiences fed up with the system: this is just the thing for readers impatient with the rat race who wish they could arm themselves and click on."{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/g-gordon-liddy/the-monkey-handlers/|title=THE MONKEY HANDLERS|work=Kirkus Reviews|accessdate=2019-02-22}} The review described the novel as appealing to "every xenophobic base".