In late May or early June I will publish a new book: When Dogs Could Talk.

Synopsis

“Need you at Babilani, Charlie—know the place?”

Harris learned to regret answering the call made by the Chief Inspector, but that cold January evening it was just another story—and he’d covered enough of these so the Babilani appeared to be but one more. It wasn’t.

Charlie Harris and CI Winston Quist, with little hope and less conviction, put their natural suspicion and cynicism aside in an attempt to stop what both believe will be the decimation of their country.

What emerges from this decision is a journey through economic collapse, crime, espionage, counter-intelligence, insurrection, civil war, accident, coincidence, psychosis, spree killing, mass murder, and an archetypal genocide.

When Dogs Could Talk follows Harris, and those that cross his path, through a year in the life of a city as it seems to prepare itself for a season in hell.

Can this be stopped?

More importantly, could the collapse be understood—and in the understanding halt what appears to be inevitable?

Through a vast and complex cast of characters—political leaders, criminals, caitiffs, radical lesbians, psychopaths, reporters, lovers, hookers, strippers, homophobes, families, pimps, revolutionaries, demagogues, children, the homeless, street gangs, detectives, doctors, thugs, constables, navvies, nurses, convicts, spies, murderers, protean abortionists, errant philosophers, nihilists, terrorists, double-agents, and the vast, nameless morass of a stunned and feckless humanity—When Dogs Could Talk carries the reader through a page turning psychological thriller which is part political gang rape, a part philosophical barbarism, and part post-modern morality play.

Dogs is less concerned with the ethos of an act then it is with why individuals choose one sensibility rather than another. From this follows all of the action, reaction, and resolution of the various characters in this epic study of the ordinary and extraordinary caught up in a contemporary, but very old, wave of historical violence and social collapse.

Through the extremities of the year one question haunts—
Is revolution the art of political plagiarism?

As genre this book could be listed as follows: Literary Thriller; Thriller; Espionage; Psychological Thriller; Psychological Novel; Espionage; Revolution; War; Action; Philosophical Novel; Realpolitik; Indie;