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Laddar... The Last One Out: A Novel (utgåvan 2020)av Victor Adams (Författare)
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Follow Victor Adams' hilarious dystopian satire of American life. From a disastrous Disneyland Selfi-Park to tongue twisting corporate sloganeering and 'investment ready' lawsuits. You'll wonder where fiction stops and reality starts.Teri Bradshaw finally conquered life; she got rich. Her TSA agents have been robbing airport passengers for a decade. She ships all our stuff down to Nicaragua to resell around the world. But when that country spirals into civil unrest, can her scheme survive?In the fires of the Nicaraguan revolution, Christian discovered a lost Spanish treasure. It's his ticket out. But the one friend who could smuggle it out got trapped in the U.S. by its failed legal system and the cartoonish new expectation lawsuits.Lainey, the jilted wife of one of Teri's boyfriends, can prove the sly CEO is a crook. She had to go to Colombia to do it, and now the freedom of expat life beckons. She'll have to decide whether to follow Lady Justice's example or return to the U.S. and risk being The Last One Out. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Most of the story revolves around amusingly unprincipled characters going directly after wealth, no holds barred. Wealth here can be the valuables TSA lifts from passengers’ bags, or lost shipwreck gold, or endless bills from endless lawsuits, or other exaggerated greed. The characters are almost all unlikable in hilarious ways, so the plot is less about seeing beloved characters through conflict, and more about ridiculous events unfolding with internal logic. In a system where hard work gets you more hard work, why not try audacious greed?
The “system” here is a familiar one. Anyone who’s every had to trash their liquids for airport security theater, and then re-purchased a $12 mini tube of hand cream in the terminal will recognize this satire. The Last One Out turns everyday annoyances up, creating a world that’s basically ours, taken just a bit further. (