Foodchain

by Jeff Jacobson

Frank Winter has a gift. He can soothe and handle damn near anything on four legs. But his future career as a racetrack equine veterinarian is destroyed with one vicious kick to the head. Now, the men who financed his education want their investment back and Frank becomes the guy to get his hands dirty when a horse in worth more dead than alive.

But when a job goes bad and a horse dies on national television, Frank is taken to a rundown roadside zoo where the animals aren't just hungry. They're slowly starving. And Frank is on the menu.

396 pages, Hardcover

First published July 7, 2012

Reviews

[C.L. Holmes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this before Tiger King became a sensation, and now think, if everyone was so excited by that show, they should read this book. Dark, grim, animal-noir?

[DJMikeG · Rating 4 out of 5]

Imagine a combination of Quentin Tarantino, Charles Bukowski, Spaghetti Westerns, Joe R. Lansdale and maybe just a hint of Hunter S. Thompson, and you are in the general vicinity of this incredibly wild and deranged novel. This is the second book I've read by Jacobson, and I'm extremely impressed with his talent. This book is one of the grittiest, darkest, strangely funny, and most interesting things I've read in awhile. Its pretty hard to categorize, as well. To call it an action novel or a noir novel is technically correct, but its so much more than that. Its just extremely bizarre, drug and booze fueled mayhem that has a surprisingly powerful emotional punch towards its end. A fantastic, brilliant, absurd, wild novel. Highly recommended!

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

I hated the characters, hated the setting, hated the plot, hated every single character in the book.... and somehow.. even with all of this, the writing was of such caliber that I couldn't stop reading it. This is one of those books that is depressing, disheartening and affecting.... but so well written that you will find yourself loving it.

[Debra · Rating 5 out of 5]

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