The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (novel)
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle is a novel by Michael Moorcock published in 1980. Plot summary. "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" is a novel in which Jerry Cornelius and the Sex Pistols bring anarchy to the UK. Reception. Greg Costikyan reviewed "The Great Rock n Roll Swindle" in "Ares Magazine" #12 and commented that "There are some amusing moments in "Swindle" [...] especially when Bakunin and the Ukrainian anarchist Makhno criticize the hedonistic decadence of what punkers claim is 'anarchy.'"