In the indefinite future, an impoverished United States has sold its Southwestern and Pacific Coast states to Mexico. Seattle is governed by administrators and police sent from Mexico on hardship tour. And it is hardship. Human life has been brutalized. At night, gangs control the streets. Idealistic revolutionaries are no less brutal than the gangs. In "The Inquisitor", Jerome Gold depicts a society that is disintetrating by increments.
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...A taut, muscled novel which exposes, painfully and by degrees, the process of moral corruption - in bureaucratic organizations and individuals... -- Dr. Sue Ann Johnston, Western Washington University
Gold...has a grip on many of the predicaments, characters and tendencies which contemporary fiction is concerned with. -- The Small Press Book Review
It is as if Kafka and Orwell have conspired to present us with a cautionary tale of an American future... -- David Willson, author, REMF Diary
Gold...has a grip on many of the predicaments, characters and tendencies which contemporary fiction is concerned with. -- The Small Press Book Review
It is as if Kafka and Orwell have conspired to present us with a cautionary tale of an American future... -- David Willson, author, REMF Diary
About the Author
Jerome Gold is the author of three novels, including Sergeant Dickinson, The Inquisitor, and The Prisoner's Son; two collections of stories: Of Great Spaces (with Les Galloway) and Prisoners; and two collections of interviews with people involved in independent publishing, Publishing Lives and Obscure in the Shade of the Giants. He has published short stories, essays, poetry, and reviews in Left Bank, Chiron Review, Hawaii Review, Poets on the Line, Fiction Review, Boston Review and other literary journals. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
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This review is from: The Prisoner's Son: Homage to Anthony Burgess (Paperback)
The imagery almost seems true to life except that the actual decay of civilization as depicted in this book hasn't actually occurred (yet). The story is unsettling, so much that the reader can't avoid feeling as though he could be one of the characters...or perhaps wish he was. Who wouldn't want to live in a world of complete chaos where the government is so corrupt that the average citizen gets away with whatever crime or decrepit act he wants as long as the authorities don't care (what authorities)? Overall, a very realistic story, and well written. Thank you for your honesty Mr. Gold!
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