The Chicken Factory - a novel
Unrepresented, unpublished, but bloody good - read all about it
here.
On a journey through despair, love, violence and death
Jack discovers you can't kidnap someone else's idea of truth, you have to find
your own.
Telling your boss where to stick his job and then burning the
company car isn't the best way to react when you discover your wife is having an
affair with a bloke from work. Running away to stay with a friend who isn't
friendly anymore isn't sensible either. Sleeping with that old friend's best
friend's girlfriend isn't wise, but stealing the best friend's car and using it
to commit a violent crime is surely madness.
But when your actions cause
someone to burn to death, you know you've gone too far.
Your wife thinks
you're a missing person.
Your friend thinks you're a murderer.
The
police think you're a terrorist.
You're probably all three.
But
worse than that, the girl of your dreams doesn't want to know.
Jack's got
no money, no home, and a bad case of misanthropy. On a journey through despair,
love, violence and death he discovers that you can't kidnap someone else's idea
of truth, you have to find your own. Yeah, there's more to life than marriage, a
car, a mortgage and a job, but not much more. So go back, face the music, learn
to love - but most of all, learn to live.