Pecking Order

by Chris Simms

Book Overview

A gripping psychological crime novel that follows the success of his first, Outside the White Lines.Rubble lives in a caravan and works on a battery farm. Totally oblivious to the outside world, he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099446847
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Arrow
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.2" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

Refreshingly different

Again (after reading 'Outside The White Lines') excellent characterisation from Simms. Especially Rubble, the chap who lives in a caravan on the battery farm where he works. He's approached and 'hired' to do some undercover work and having always longed to be in the army, yet never been successful, he finds his new job thrilling and much more satisfying than wringing the necks of diseased or injured birds on the farm. His only worry is how long his new job will last! It was a fascinating, if disturbing, insight into battery farming and threw up some interesting parallels between the lives of the chickens and those elderly and infirm in society. All too often we close our eyes to the plight of others, knowing that they are unhappy or lonely. Just as many of us never consider the conditions egg laying hens have to endure on battery farms. We know it goes on of course, and if pushed we think it's unacceptable, but five minutes later have moved on to thinking about something more pleasant. Rubble is a character who could be described as sick, strange, sad, gullible and mercenary but I'm pretty sure you'll be unable to dislike him.