Life on Mars Book Club discussion

Let's get the discussion started now.

A teaser for the novel reads as follows: A clerk in a Tokyo of the near future works in an organization that controls the flow of information to society--employing electronic brainwashing and other insidious techniques--a job that contributes to his increasing sense of dehumanization.


For those of us that have either read the novel or are almost near completion, do you this teaser aptly captures the feeling of the novel? Why or why not?