Review: An exciting blend of fact and fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2013
Nic Taylor sets out his stall from the very first page of `A Plague Of Dissent.'  A politician is caught in a honey trap which has been set by the press. In the melee that follows, the young woman who was the bait in the trap is accidentally killed. This fusion of topical events and artistic invention is the predominant feature of this book. The story is woven so closely into real events that very often it is difficult to tell where fact ends and where fiction begins. This adds so much to the believability of the story that I found myself questioning the official version of recent events involving political corruption, electronic monitoring, multinational contracts, and street disturbances. Everywhere in `A Plague Of Dissent' there is corruption and deceit. Senior policemen, politicians, press moguls. No one is to be trusted.What starts out as a love story set against a background of phone hacking and shady dealing, escalates into a tale involving international terrorists who pose a threat to the very survival of the country.The story is fast-paced and engrossing. The events frightening and breathtaking in scope, and yet well within the realms of possibility.I am by no means a paranoid conspiracy freak, but by the end of the book I was left thinking 'Just how much do we really know? How much are they not telling us?'