The Games People Play

Albert Wang's latest novel turns towards a more ambitious scale where the international financial markets rule over humanity in a omnipresent way. Written in the language of e-mail spam, the seemingly British anti-hero of this science fiction thriller launders virtual money into this funnel of fraud, extortion, and crime that is hidden within the confusing language of his private letters written then blended on a computer. His literary tradition is squarely that of this hybrid combination of deadly words caught among John Barth's LETTERS, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and William Gaddis' J.R. with an updated twist. This dicator without a name controls his worldwide gang of tricksters and maniacs using this universal terminal that serves to dangle the characters of Earth like a marionette under the guise of violent seduction without conscience.