The Last Text

4/5 ( ratings)

It is the third millennium, though a population controlled by world government dispensed designer drugs is not always sure of dates. But Marvin Merlin is on a quest to destroy more than universal government. The son of the great revolutionary Harold Acteon “gone absolute” in the slow hanging sheds at Windsor will pit his life against the widest conspiracy of traitors pretending to be co-conspirators but out to destroy him. Then in the middle of his plans a rocket arrives from outer space, or does it?

The text includes excerpts from articles by the Guardian’s Dizzy Ruggles, long ago feature writer, sheep fancier, skate boarder, and revolutionary, but only in words never deeds.

The Last Text follows on from Ian Kennedy Martin’s ‘The Last Crime’ . Francis King reviewing it in The Spectator, wrote. “What makes this novel so interesting is the extraordinary brilliance of its execution and a wonderfully apt way of extrapolating from the present to the future. One has the impression of an immensely fecund feverish intelligence to match the immensely fecund feverish imagination. Language becomes a bow to be bent to the author’s will; and the arrows that stream from it are all tipped with fire.”