Beneath the idyllic green rolling hills of a well-off rural area lurks the stench of mafia-dumped toxic waste, polluting the air, the water supply and the food chain, killing off the wildlife and giving cancer to the people who live there.

What finer metaphor could one imagine for the industrial society which has been imposed on us all by the global criminocracy?

And yet this is not so much metaphor as truth, as American author Biff Thuringer makes clear in his powerful, entertaining and finely-crafted novel Wasted: A Story of Love Gone Toxic, which I review here.

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