Pragtopia

A crime novel which tells the story of two unlikely heroes, and also asks some deep sociological and economic questions. What kind of world do we really want to live in? Why do our politicians seem incapable of creating this world for us? And how can we create this world ourselves? Socrates, a retired schoolteacher, and Jack, a university dropout, form an unlikely friendship. With the help of a few friends, they try to recapture their economic and political ideals. However, the younger man's past keeps resurfacing and threatens to drag him back into a dark and violent world front which he was trying to escape. The pressure on him to move back into this world steadily increases until it not only threatens him but threatens the lives of his friends.... Can they save the British economy? Can they save their ideals? But ultimately ...can they save themselves?