Delicious

Mark Haskell Smith

ISBN 10: 0871138840 / ISBN 13: 9780871138842

Published by Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2005

About this Item

CB6 - An advance reading copy paperback book SIGNED by author on the title page in very good condition that has some number stamped on the bottom page edges, light tanning and shelf wear. The main character is a professional. He becomes involved in a battle to keep his family's catering business from being ruined by a greedy rival. A film shoot begins in the local area and a competition developes over who will provide food for the set. Until then, the family catering business had been the only game in town. Problems develope when a nasty, horny, recovering stroke victim with Mafia connections comes to Honolulu from Las Vegas to take over the film-catering industry. By the author of "Moist." 8.25"x5.5", 321 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # SCW13044

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Delicious
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871138840
• ISBN 13: 9780871138842
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Book Type: Advance Reading Copy (ARC)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction::General Fiction
  • Fiction::Signed Fiction
  • Fiction::Modern Fiction Firsts
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Welcome to sunny Hawaii, where the palm trees sway, the tropical breezes blow, and a gangland-style turf war is erupting. Joseph is one of the best chefs in Honolulu, but these days the opakapaka and ono aren't the only things heating up. When a TV producer flies to the islands to film a pilot, a fight-to-the-finish breaks out over who will cater the shoot. Will it be Joseph and his hotheaded Samoan uncle, who have held a monopoly on the catering business for years? Or Big Jack Lacey, a trash-talking, lap dance-addicted stroke survivor from Las Vegas and his milque-toast son, a young man who wants to be a missionary but doesn't know the position. As far as Joseph's family is concerned, this is an invasion on par with Captain Cook, only this time the mainlanders have to be stopped before paradise is lost.
With the Teamsters unwilling to take sides and the Sin City boys enlisting the services of an ecstasy-popping ex-Marine hit man, hope comes in the form of Francis, a gay TV-movie producer on a drug-crazed bender after a bad breakup.

Review

"'I haven't laughed so hard or often at a crime novel in years. A wonderfully perverse book, I recommend it in the highest possible terms.' Scott Phillips * 'The man can tell a story, oh, yes, indeed.' T. C. Boyle * 'Brilliant. Perverse black humour and sensuality, totally unexpected situations. This is spare, stylish writing. Impossible not to finish once you've started.' New York Post"