num_pages: 288
description: Set in the intersecting worlds of fine dining Hollywood and the media a darkly hilarious and ultimately affecting story about the underside of success and fame and our ongoing complicity in devouring our cultural heroes. While filming on location in Belfast Northern Ireland John Doe the universally adored host of the culinary travel show Last Call is found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. As the news of his untimely demise breaks stateside a group of friends fixers hustlers and opportunists vie to seize control of the narrative: Doe's chess-master of an agent Nia ready to call in every favor she is owed to preserve his legacy; down-on-her-luck journalist Katie who fabricates a story about Doe to save her job at a failing website; and world-famous chef Paolo Cabrini Doe's closest friend and confidant who finds himself entangled with a deranged Belfast hotel worker whose lurid secret might just take them all down. Bolstered by the authors' insider knowledge of high-end restaurants and low-end media The Lemon delivers an examination of our culture.
language: English
title: The Lemon
publisher: Viking