[Marxism] "The Knowland Retribution: The Locator"

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

When I took a writer's workshop class at NYU in 1980, the instructor 
told the students that their first novel should come out of their own 
experience. That would certainly be true of Richard Greener's 
"<http://www.amazon.com/Knowland-Retribution-Locator-Richard-Greener/dp/0738708623/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-7694462-8396917?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175553995&sr=8-2>The 
Knowland Retribution: The Locator," even though Greener has never 
been an assassin or a private detective. But using his knowledge of 
the customs and values of the Atlanta upper middle-class, drawn from 
his life and career there as president of WAOK, the city's largest 
Black-oriented radio station (he is white), he has written a gripping 
crime story that pits one of these middle-class men against the 
nameless and faceless merchants of industry responsible for the 
deaths of his family and hundreds of other innocent people.

Leonard Martin is a successful real estate lawyer who decides to take 
revenge against the top management of a Wall Street investment firm 
and the principals of a meat-packing company after his wife and 
children eat beef that is tainted by e-coli bacteria. As a 
personality, he is just as bland and as set in his ways as the men 
who go rafting on the fictional Cahulawassee River in Northern 
Georgia. Instead of a confrontation with hillbilly rapists, Martin is 
forced to take action against men who profit from diseased meat.

full: 
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/04/02/richard-greeners-the-knowland-retribution-the-locator/ 


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