Welcome to Coolsville

by Jason Mordaunt

Nine days is a long time in Coolsville. More than enough time for Dr. Kiely Flanagan to shop business mogul J.P. Gillespie to a scandal-hungry media, collect the bounty and split for the sun. Time enough, Marshall McLemon hopes, to secure the backing he needs for his online museum exhibit, getting him - work wise at any rate - out of boresville and into something real.

Papa Charlie McCormack is racing against the clock to discover if Sister Jasmine Ylang-Ylang is the type of nun that goes in for celibacy or not, and the directors of the WentWest Inc, are anxious to see an end to the year-long plague visited upon them by the cyber-terror organisation known as Mantra.

Whether any of them succeed is something else, as one thing depends on the other in this finely balanced, gripping and often hilarious satire.

384 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2003

Reviews

[Aine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just re-read Welcome to Coolsville after a decade and it was just a good the second time round. Mordaunt creates a fact-paced, detail-packed thrilling tale of a thirty-year-older Dublin. An electic array of characters, including doctors, enforcers, archivists and sleuths, interact in a world where the shady dealings of the few have an inordinate impact on anyone who gets in the way of "progress".

Funny, clever and terrifyingly plausible, this is a fantastic read. I just want to know what happened to the follow-up!