With all of Larry's novels, the reader is left to wonder how much this is a vivid and inventive imagination – and how much is simply an uncannily perceptive eye for current affairs and the state of the country. They have deserved a much larger audience than they have had, although American Hero, when metamorphosed into Wag The Dog did indeed reach many more viewers than readers.

Rory O’Connor is not a conspiracy theorist. He knows the world is complicated, and there can be unintended consequences – but he also knows that there can indeed be plots. Shock Jocks traces the history of contemporary Talk Radio, which is almost invariably conservative.