ISBN: 978-1-59058-887-1
Released, 2011, 324 pgs,
Hard Cover.
This is a novel born of the twenty-first century. It is technology-rich,
abrupt, punchy, and filled with first-person pithy observations. It has a
modern complicated plot and some dark conspiracies worthy of flat-worlders
and those who still appear to believe the landings on the moon were merely
another government scam.
Blogger Nat Idle is drifting through life as a medical reporter and
occasionally paying attention to his rapidly aging grandmother, the only
member of his family in close proximity. When he and Grandma Lane are on a
casual outing in a San Francisco park, a mysterious stranger, apparently
driving a Prius, shoots at him, or her, or them. How could this gentle,
rapidly aging woman, with no apparent enemies attract an assassin? Not
possible so it must be Nat who was the target. After all, he was engaged in
a controversy with some San Francisco cops about Porta Potty corruption.
The novel uses a criminal conspiracy of immense possibilities and
proportions to raise questions about the rising dependence on technology to
replace our individual memories, and to sermonize about American society’s
eagerness to shuttle its older generations into places where they can die
out of sight and mostly out of mind. Those shortcomings aside, the novel
develops and carries along an inventive idea that is highly fraught with
tension and believability.
Carl Brookinshttp://www.carlbrookins.com/, http://www.agora2.blogspot.com/
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