Against the Machine: Manifesto

Mel Buckworth, a dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose, his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills, so apparent in his children's generation. As Mel desperately attempts to find equilibrium, he estranges his family and enlists the help of a greedy grad student, Will Baker, who teaches him the skills needed to wreak revenge on a system seemingly discarding him. As his aptitudes grow, he begins to use the internet, the very thing he despised, as a weapon. Slowly, he turns terrorist to deliver his message: that humans will succumb to machines and the social system controlling them. As his acts grow more lethal, Mel knows he must make an indelible declaration. A “manifesto” to be remembered.

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"A veritable spellbinder, infused with realism and humanity." — Daniel Rhodes, The Book Commentary
 

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"Questions about the nature of work, the effects of our wired world on the human psyche, and the ways in which people both love and hurt each other." — John Oughton, author of Higher Teaching