When a rising young software developer leaves his prized possession--a BMW 2002--in the parking space belonging to a Mafia kingpin, the car is nearly destroyed. Foolishly, the young man tries to exact revenge--by kidnapping the mobster's valuable racing greyhound.
Love, sex, death, money, and dogs -- they're all here in Dan Lyons's debut novel, Dog Days. Lyons gives us a hip and hilarious tale of love (both canine and carnal) and a story of revenge gone wrong. Packing the same contemporary verve as Douglas Coupland's Microserfs and the...