Racism and violence as institutionalized entertainment, interplanetary suspense, and a life/love story in pixels are the topics of three of the novels reviewed today. Additionally, we have books that explore the worlds of British magicians, Glasgow petty crime, and FBI profilers.
Set in a dystopian near-future, this incendiary novel is a satire that talks of the American private penal system, and how it’s mired in institutionalized racism, blind capitalism, and monetizing whatever assets it may have on hand. In the center of the novel, is CAPE, the Criminal Action Penal Entertainment - a hugely popular, profit-taking, entertainment program that pits inmates against each other in televised gladiator fashion - in fights to the death.
Things get complicated when a"rescue mission" from Earth arrives. And there’s talk of the invisible things that may actually be responsible for this terrarium world existing at all. Monumental Muting, what Jackson coins to describe the mass denying, is just one of the sociological concepts that’s utilized to describe this world. And somehow, we implicitly know that Johnson is commenting on the real world, and how so much of what we read could apply to modern life as we know it.
Tested in the sense that he’s been hoodwinked, and it turns out that his desire to exhibit patriotism has been exploited by Soviet agents masquerading as British intelligence. It isn’t long before the real British secret service are charging Louis with high treason. One thing leads to another, and there’s a quest to go behind Soviet lines, uncover who is Potash, and discredit him and his Funhouse. It’s Louis up against this formidable nemesis.
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