Asfixia - Choke - Spanish Author:Chuck Palahniuk, Javier Calvo Perales (Translator) Victor Mancini is a ruthless con artist. Victor Mancini is a medical school dropout who's taken a job playing an Irish indentured servant in a colonial-era theme park in order to help care for his Alzehimer's-afflicted mother. Victor Mancini is a sex addict. Victor Mancini is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ. — Victor Mancini has devised a sca... more »m to pay for his mother's medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" you will feel responsible for the rest of their life. Multiply that by a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy income.