I'm reading a really good book right now. _The Twenty Seventh City_, by Jonathan Franzen. He writes a lot for the New Yorker and his most famous book is probably _The Corrections_. Pardon me if you are familiar with him. Anyway, it is a complicated multi-plot story of St. Louis in the 1980s ( I know, whoopee, right?). This 35 year old indian woman is named Police chief of the city because she has done such incredible work in Bombay. But actually, she is the head of a secret cabal of self proclaimed neo-socialists who use psychological torture, kidnapping, terrorism, and murder to hoard political power and upset the balance of privilege vs. exploitation in the region. The goal of the psychological torture, in which they f*ck with people's lives and families, is to catalyze what they call "The State" in which a person, usually high powered municipal leaders, its so distressed, that they become susceptible to the influence of the Police Chief. It doesn't hurt that she is a brilliant political strategist and that everyone loves her.
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