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The Hammer Will Fall

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If you're a fan of Ed Lee or Jack Ketchum you should really like this first novel by indy filmmaker Tim Ritter, who is no stranger to the genre. It's sort of like "CLASS OF 1984" crossed with "THE SUBSTITUTE" combined with a slasher movie! What happens when a teacher can't take his abusive, out of control students anymore? Students not even the school's principal will reprimand? Students who break in to his home, harass his pregnant wife and put the cat in the microwave? You'll find out in this fast paced, quick read. Recommended.

Mr. Ritter is a genius! Taking the reality of 21st Century schools that are so far out of control and putting it in this context is absolutely brilliant.

'Hammer' is at once intelligent, realistic, and entertaining. This book should be a wake up call to America about how far our schools have truly decayed. The writing is based on real facts and a teacher that was in the system. It cannot be argued and who knows, in twenty years teachers may face "fighting back" their students like gladiator barbarians or just quitting.

Education is a joke, America's high school SAT scores are so low it's ridiculous---teens graduate that cannot even read and no one is doing anything. This book is an eye-opener---kids are doing whatever they want and their family lives have rotted them from the beginning. All today's self-centered teens are concerned with is sex, drugs, violence, and sick music. Society as a whole has ruined them from the get-go. I see it in my old neighborhood and where I taught (yes, I'm a former NY teacher---glad I got out before I got a bullet in the head).

While this book hits the fictional zone about midway through, the reality it's based upon is just so haunting. Wake up America, your schools...and future leaders...are crumbling.

And this book shows why! I think THE HAMMER WILL FALL is the new 1984. It offers insight, reality, and then switches into a "final solution" that, in a fictional sense, is most satisfying.

Read this book at all costs!