Description: Love, sex, death, money, and dogs -- they're all here. Dan Lyons's debut novel, Dog Days, is a smart, fast moving, funny tale of love (both canine and carnal) and a great chase all rolled into one.

Reilly is a lovelorn, twenty-four-year-old software developer living in Boston's North End with his best friend, Evan, a misanthropic computer genius. They don't have many friends, except for their sexy Sicilian neighbor, Maria Bava.

Reilly's problems start when the project he thought was going to make him rich starts falling apart. They get worse when he decides to leave his prize possession -- his supercharged BMW 2002 -- in a parking space belonging to a local Mafia kingpin. And things really hit bottom when the car ends up nearly destroyed, and Reilly foolishly vows to get revenge.

Reilly and Evan decide to abduct the mobster's prize possession, Coco, a valuable and famous racing greyhound. After a makeshift ransom plan goes terribly wrong, Reilly, Evan, and Maria escape in the BMW -- taking Coco with them. In a climactic Miami showdown, Reilly must not only face up to the mobsters, but also grow up enough to take control of his life, career, and feelings for Maria.

Packing the same contemporary verve as Douglas Coupland's Microserfs, Dog Days deftly deals with the confusion, hopes, and fears that go hand-in-hand with being smart, ambitious, and twenty-four-years-old.

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