Will the world survive today's Woke Agenda?"Agenda 2060: The Future as It Happens" is a novel set 40 years in the future when the hot button topics of today's Woke Agenda - like Critical Race Theory, Gender Diversity, Hate Speech and Cancel Culture - have been written into the Government's policy agendas, with wildly absurd consequences.Not the least being that the preferential treatment accorded to victims and minority groups has led to the majority of people competing for special treatment, pitting group against group, and destroying the State's welfare support budgets in the process. While the book deconstructs the divisive issues of today with incisive humor, it also provides a penetrating view of where we may be heading. This is biting satire, in the George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut traditions, but suggesting instead that people are not nearly as far apart in what they want for the world as they imagine. A novel...

The New York seventies murder that gave birth to a song ... She was a beautiful young singer-songwriter with a dream, but she ended up dead on a Madison Avenue sidewalk, a gun in her hand. Just another New York mugging - except she was the mugger. Eighteen years after Suzanne Finch was killed, her intended victim Charles Bateman stands accused of her death, and has only the lyrics of her songs with which to defend himself. Set in a tense and lawless late-20th Century New York, the unexplained elements surrounding Suzanne's death are gradually revealed through the lyrics of the songs she left behind - including her Song for Leonard. As Charles is forced to defend himself, uncovering evidence of police persecution and religious bigotry, his own life is placed in jeopardy the closer he gets to the truth. Was her dream just a fantasy, and did...