Vic City Express [Paperback]

It could be happening here…or there. Today the place is Greece, wracked by a crisis that has pushed people to the brink. Two strangers meet in a train headed for Athens. One spews out his disgust at the foreigners and the poverty that have invaded the neighborhood he calls home, Vic City. He even has a "final solution” in mind. The other, seized by fright—or is it resignation and apathy?— squirms as his haughty silence gives way to voyeurism and to political correctness. While the former, uninhibited, lashes out at the economic crisis in a violent racist rant, the latter, troubled, checks his email about the latest health treatments aimed at him and his family. Along the way, we get glimpses of the forces that have destroyed a society. Who will end up leading its angry, desperate and rudderless people?Vic City Expressseizes the anxieties of our dystopian globalized world.

“A provocative and timely book [that] will leave you squirming… It packs a powerful punch and refuses to look away from the raw and the ugly of human experience… Quebec-based publisher Baraka Books continues to push the envelope and choose fascinating projects and subject matters and I sincerely admire them for that.” —Toula Drimonis, Greek Canadian, writer, journalist, political commentator

"Vic City Expressdemonstrates the ease with which hatred for other humans can be planted and grown. This slim novel is a powerful inoculation against the fear that is so readily embraced in these dark and uncertain days." —Meagan Logsdon, Foreword Reviews

"Vic City Expressis a fierce little book; tiny in size, but large in reach and impact... Vic City Expressan extraordinary example of creative fiction, (or a fictional essay), as it employs different writing styles throughout." —James Fisher, The Miramichi l3Q