One of the main characters, a bounty hunter in training, has a beloved dog. When he and his boss are taken, one of the men kills his dog (offscreen,) cooks it, and eats it.
One of the main characters was abandoned as a child, due to a deformity. He was picked up by a freak show, and worked with them until he was able to break free and find a new line of work.
The main character, a Vietnam vet exposed to Agent Orange, has a son who is on the autism spectrum. Before his wife divorced him, he had a flashback to his war days and, as he woke from a nightmare, realized he was strangling his own son.
The story kicks off when the main character shoots and kills a man.
A woman accidentally shoots her husband with a shotgun while pursuing the main character. Angered at the main character’s escape, she beats her (already mortally wounded) husband to death with the gun-stock.
Someone’s knee is blown out with a small handgun.
The main characters are threatened with guns several times throughout the book.
The book also features a gang of drug traffickers, all of whom are armed to the teeth with every kind of firearm you can imagine.
Alligators are caught, en masse, by a drug trafficking ring. Their snouts are bound shut with wire, and they are hogtied. The drug dealers hide their drugs inside live alligators before shipping them up north to a processing plant.