SHRIEK

<p>The main character of the book an eccentric Aleph McNaught is at a crossroads in what he sees as a meaningless life. Abused as a child he turns to drugs and ends up locked up in an asylum before launching into a new and wild life populated by a host of multiple personalities.</p><p>McNaught as narrator invites the reader on a psychotic ride into his crazy headspace while commenting on the state of a fictitious society.</p><p>His goal is to tilt the axis of the old world order just enough to make a difference to the way people think. Only then can the megalomania in politics economics society and religion cause the old world order to spin out and unravel. In its place a new world order will gather up the threads on an axis realigned to the demands of an ever evolving 21<sup>st</sup> century world.</p><p>Aleph invites the reader to help him empower the people of his beloved crippled country by offering them an absurd other-worldly alternative that offers political stability social equality and economic security. He promises a tamper proof solution that can last forever. </p>