Tony Chu is a cibopath, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. Eating an apple, for example, gives him an impression of the exact tree it came from, the tree's location, the pesticides used on it, and the migrant workers who picked the apple. Eating a piece of meat gives him visions of terrified animals being led to the slaughterhouse and those visions have made him vegetarian. The only food he can eat in peace is beets - beets lead dull lives, apparently. Basically he is hungry all the time and reluctant to eat and bring on disturbing visions. His job as a cop gets tougher and less appetizing when he stops in a restaurant one day and the vegetable soup he orders brings on horrifying visions of 13 grisly murders committed by one of the kitchen help. He stops a mass murderer, but his explanation of just how he knew gets him transfered to Special Crimes Division where the boss is not afraid to exploit Tony's ability - and Tony's case load gets tough to swallow when he starts getting fed evidence from cold cases........
The reader better have a strong stomach as well as a taste for dark humor.
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