Joseph O’Neill’sentertaining comic novel about a man’s mounting regret over his rash decision to become a Mr Fixit for a rich Middle Eastern family. Told with hallmark eloquence, empathy, and storytelling mastery,The Dogis a brilliantly original, achingly funny fable for our globalized times.2007, New York. A rootless attorney bumps into an old college buddy and accepts his friend’s offer of a job in Dubai, as the overseer of an enormous family fortune. Haunted by the collapse of his relationship and hoping for a fresh start, our strange hero soon begins to suspect that he has exchanged one inferno for another. A comic and philosophically profound exploration of what has become of humankind’s moral progress,"Just when O'Neill has lulled us into enjoying the narrator's company, he makes the character do something frightening or disturbing. This gives the book an interesting moral complexity and makes it more than a comic novel. The writing is brisk and funny, but O'Neill is also exploring deep questions about ethics and happiness in a globalized age of instant information and economic inequality. His narrator is a fascinating creation: charming and repugnant, selfless and self-absorbed, erudite and steeped in popular culture."-Nick Romeo, The Chicago TribuneJoseph O’Neillis a double Booker longlistee (2008 and 2014). He was educated in the Netherlands and at Cambridge, before working as a barrister in London and then moving to New York. His Booker Prize novels contain aspects of his life: O’Neill is the Staten Island Cricket Club’s most famous player (the club features in his post-9/11 novel Netherland) while The Dog centres on a New York lawyer during the financial crisis.