Just picked this up at the library today.
On page ten; the following, will give you the dark-tone being set:
"He also introduced her to his dog, a truly poised, hyper-alert Malinois named Rocky that had been one of the unit’s working animals. Nicole wanted to know why it had no teeth. Lavigne told her that its titanium dentures had been surgically removed upon retirement because the dog had been trained to attack and had grown accustomed to feeding on the flesh of people killed in special operations raids, including being allowed, ‘as a treat,’ to eat human brains.
It goes on, but you get the idea.
Ironic, as I’m trying to finish,
An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature, by Jim Mason.
