The Booker Effect

<p>The Booker Effect displays a jaunty energy and compelling forward momentum. The writing is consistently assured and the dialogue is especially well-handled. The novel is marked throughout by good humour and satire with engaging forays into philosophy literature mathematics and pop music. This is an original work whose themes are explored with panache and a quirky wisdom.<br/>-Ed Kavanagh Author Musician and Teacher</p><p>When schools become plagued by terrorism and teenage anarchy Max Booker a German-born educator with a no-nonsense attitude proposes a solution-a special Educational Police department along with a scientifically-based system of corporal punishment. When the public becomes polarized in its reactions to Educational Police operations Booker must contend with criticism of his pain apparatus and rumours of sinister activities at his educational camps. </p><p>As a counterpoint enter Tommy Taylor an intelligent but rebellious teenage punk rocker. Disaffected with school he becomes Booker's nemesis attempting to subvert the Education Police in his own unique way. It's Hogan's Heroes meets A Clockwork Orange-a new Jonathan Swift for the twenty-first century.</p>