DADDY PIG

by Mel Arrighi ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 1974

The author of several rather unconvincing novels about fascistic apocalyptica (Freak Out, An Ordinary Man) has finally written one with a logic so insidious that the post-Watergate reader is more than likely to agree that not only Can It but It is Very Likely Happening Here. Hal Dabney, a 35-year-old ponytail-sporting, weed-smoking real estate broker powerhouse is thrown out of his Upper East Side complacency by a chance encounter (where else but at a ""radical chic"" cocktail party) with the West Indian lady who is not only the mother of his only child but the Queen Sister of the Zanj nation -- a black nco-African sect whose aim is to enslave the white world. Finally finding an outlet for his as-yet uncoalesced anti-Establishment sympathies, Hal drops out, lets the Zanj move into his choice Third Avenue property, and becomes the Nation's first slave -- until the accidental murder of his former partner truly sends Hal Underground, courtesy of a radical priest who turns out to be a particularly unpleasant government agent. But of course, who will believe this crazed ex-millionaire? not his niece's Weatherman collective which tries to kill him; not the Zanj; not his son; not even the cops who hunt him down over the barren countryside as he scrounges for garbage pail leftovers. A paranoia thriller written with enough rational plausibility as to send chills through the most entrenched liberal.

Pub Date: May 1, 1974

ISBN: 1892323834

Page Count: -

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1974

Categories: FICTION