Dog Eat Dog

by Jerry Jay Carroll, Joel Peter Johnson (Illustrator)

William "Bogie" Ingersoll, a bloodthirsty corporate raider who made his mark on Wall Street with the people he destroyed, awakens one day to the world as a big, shaggy dog who must make his mark in another way. Reprint.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction

297 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Jerry Jay Carroll is a former journalist nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize and the author of six novels, among them Top Dog, a NYT bestseller. Just out is End Times, an eschatological thriller about Good vs. Evil. Before that was another genre-bending roller-coaster ride called The Horror Writer about a wildly popular author Thom Hearn who who writes low-brow crap for the masses that get made into lucrative summer tent-pole splatter movies . Hearn is rich but the disdain of the literary world made him bitter. Then comes the invitation he gets with Wall Street whiz Carrie Alexander to a Davos-like conference of the high and mighty run by a charismatic man who can do anything better than anyone else. Hearn is the first to notice the weirdness but Carrie's not far behind. Then his fictional characters start showing up and that’s only the beginning. Who is running the show here, the charismatic director of the conference or some other manipulator? And why must everyone in the world die? Carroll was a feature writer and columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle before moving with wife and son to Montana and, later, Oregon.

Reviews

[Romantic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marvelous sequel. Beautiful how the author moved from Ingersoll's fantasy world to his real one while maintaining all the mystical aspects of the first novel. In today's world I think there are more Bogey Ingersoll's than anyone realizes. Or at least people who can relate to him.

[Des · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wouldn't say it's quite as strong as the first book, but it's definitely a worthy sequel.

[Lynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I absolutely hate the ending. It is as if the author got bored with the book and did not care to bring it to a satisfying ending.

[Claudia]

Wickedly funny! Very enjoyable.