In his second novel, Swine, the author of the bestseller Meat - Back Then in the East presents the reader with a terrifying fiction that could easily become a Slovak reality
The inhabitants of the picturesque landscape below the Tiny Mountains sporadically disappear. Others make - quite unexpectedly - dizzying careers. The two phenomena are related.
Evil is eating away at the country for all to see, quite openly. The victims do not defend themselves, they do not admit the truth: the powers that be wouldn't allow it, the people wouldn't allow it and it couldn't happen to them. Eventually, of course, it will happen to everyone.
An addicted teen disappears from a rehab center, but no one misses her. Certainly no one who counts. Junkies lie, steal and die. Everyone knows that.
A talented politician becomes President and takes over the whole country. However, he does not control his instincts and ultimately his own decisions. It's not a problem as long as they make him do things he likes.
A small-time baker wants to become a big player. For him, people are just chess pieces that he slides across the squared paper. He doesn't realise that he doesn't play chess, only pishkvorky.
Rumour has it that the Mafia hitman has dug a hole in his lifetime that could comfortably fit into the underground garage of a shopping mall. It's not true, everyone digs their own hole. Whoever has a shovel in his hands should expect the worst.
An enthusiastic neo-Nazi loses a friend in the woods. He finds the love of his life, a good friend, his dream job, and eventually the truth that robs him of everything again.
A young analyst becomes a rising star in the journalistic sky. A great future awaits him if he can survive.
The stories of the individual characters portray a system in which there are no boundaries between the mafia and politics or crime and the law. Life is worthless, death is a commodity. The state is controlled by the low instincts of high-ranking criminals.
