A Dog's Life: Top Dog and Dog Eat Dog

by Jerry Jay Carroll

Contains Top Dog and Dog Eat Dog Top Dog - Alice in Wonderland meets Wall Street in Jerry Jay Carroll's brilliant and witty debut novel. A high-powered executive gets a real lesson in looking out for number one when he wakes up as a dog. Gone are the stock reports, limos, and cocktail parties. In their place are fairy-tale forests, magical creatures and hideous monsters. It's a world where you're either good or evil. Our hero decides to explore both options before choosing. Dog Eat Dog - In Top Dog, readers met Bogey Ingersol, a ruthless raider-turned-corporate canine who marked his territory on Wall Street. This time an evil is stalking Wall Street and is headed for Pennsylvania Avenue. If Bogey's going to foil the Devil's best laid plans, he's got to get mad-dog mean.

490 pages, Hardcover

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

[Linda Branham · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the book. A man wakes up and discovers that he is a dog. And he finds himself in a world where he has to choose between good and evil.
I read the book a long time ago - but it is one that I have kept because I want to reread. On the inside cover it says

"One day, William B. Ingersoll sat in an office high above Wall Street conducting corporate takeovers.
The next day he was a big dog, surviving bu instinct alone in a strange new world.
Same difference"

Anyway, when he wakes up and finds that he is a dog, he enters a forest full of magic and monsters.
If I remember correctly he eventually goes back and forth between the two world of dogdom and peopledom :)
I MUST reread this!!!