WARNING Reader, beware this book. It's short and small. It fits into your pocket and you can read it at leisure in any public place or alone at night. It looks like so many other books. You may think that, if the author's any good, the story will help you escape the world around you; you can drift into another place, better or worse, according to your mood. This is precisely the danger.
Do not trust appearances: below the black printed words, spread page over page, lies a vision of the world that will alarm the majority, revolt the sensitive and obliterate the prudish.
Bloated bankers, Russian roubles, salacious socialites and filthy footballers: this is the meaning of life in the new millennium. Controlling it all is SHIT TV, the ultimate reality channel, which dares to put homicidal dwarves on rollerblades and obese mamas in tutus. Reluctant celebrity Tomas has had enough. Armed with a tommy gun and a revolver, he sets out to teach the world a lesson and becomes a messiah in the process. Along the way he will combat the Russian Great Bear, travel a thousand years into the future and redefine the West, aided by a militant judge, and angelic prostitute, a telekinetic alien and the greatest Frenchman who has ever lived.
James Palumbo's fanatical debut is a brilliant riposte to the financial crisis now engulfing us. Like Candide and Gulliver before him, Tomas will startle your imagination, yet linger in your mind. For what seems grotesque, even impossible, has already happened...