The Elder Terror

by Steven Duggan

"I was in Dublin City the afternoon of the first death."Seniors. Terrorists. Revolutionaries. It's payback time...To draw attention to their plight, old people start taking their lives. In public. In increasingly inventive ways. Within a month, a nation is being held hostage by its elderly citizens. This is not war. This is a revolution...In this blackly witty satire Dominic Burke tells how his mother, May, came to lead an army of disenfranchised older people as they launched acts of unparalleled terror against a frightened populace. Using ever more inventive methods, they bring the nation to the point of shut-down as they advance their claim for equality, insisting that they will no longer be ignored. “Swift’s A Modest Proposal meets The Bunny Suicides” Phil Patterson, Marjacq

140 pages, Paperback

Published May 4, 2018

Reviews

[Les · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story had a lot of potential, but fell flat for me. I think part of it was the dry prose used by the author. There was very little emotion in the writing. It sounds more like a extended news report or documentary. And I found very little humor or satire in the story. I kept hoping for a big finish, but it never materialized.

I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book, through Reading Deals, and I gave an honest review.