THE BEDROOM SECRETS OF THE MASTER CHEFS

Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a questto uncover what he refers to as 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs'.He regards the unravelling of this classified information as the key tolearning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions thatthreaten to wreck his young life. The ensuing journey takes him fromEurope's festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie capital of America, SanFrancisco. But the hard-drinking, womanising Skinner has a strange nemesisin the form of model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby. It is hisunfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything,threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those heloves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitatingmystery virus, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably boundto that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma. TheBedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is a gothic parable about the greatobsessions of our time: food, sex and minor celebrity, and is a brilliantexamination of identity, male rivalry and the need to belong in the world.