From atomic fission to Armageddon, Doug Turner's wide-ranging self-published novel We Rule the World 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. Doug Turner lives in Quesnel.

[BCBW AUTUMN 1999]