From atomic fission to Armageddon , Doug Turner's wide-ranging self-published novel We Rule the World (Box 4284, Quesnel, B.C., V2J 3J3) exposes world politics, warfare and conspiracies. It posits that a 15-member council and 21 sub-councils have secretly controlled world affairs ever since atomic fission was created in 1938. We learn the council is variously responsible for JFK's assassination, AIDS and just about everything else. At its outset and on its final page, the novel quotes T.S. Eliot's premise that humankind can't bear too much reality.

[BCBW SUMMER 1999]