Kick It Till It Breaks

<b>In his first novel <i>Kick It Till It Breaks</i> veteran music journalist Ira Robbins satirizes the foibles and fanaticism of '60s radical activists.</b><br><br>Ydinia Ochreman is the leader of a terrorist organization; her travels and exploits drive the story which involves a colorful cast of dubious characters including the incompetent FBI agent on her trail a pacifist protest leader with a complicated agenda a cranky peg-legged bar owner an Irish atheist on a quest to end organized religion and a lost soul from Memphis who ends up in London. The dark humor of <i>Kick It Till It Breaks</i> is tempered by abiding respect for those who sacrificed their lives to end the war in Viet Nam.