IN 2084 AD


	Implying an umbilical connection with George Orwell, this 200-page novel, with copious extravagant illustrations, deals with the not-inevitable demise of civilization through a final holocaust – an accidental nuclear weapons exchange. Before getting there caricatures of government officials, local, national and international, engage in frequently absurd but not unreal activities leading to confrontations that parody what goes on much of the time during the conduct of present-day government.
As a minor sub-plot, two so-called primitive societies, the smallest countries in the world – island specks in the South Pacific – demonstrate that hatred properly directed against neighboring close relatives is more justifiable than the random confrontations that occur in the developed world between nations that are relative strangers.
	The story unravels through the adventures of an unlikely FBI agent who is assigned to investigate a murder without a corpse at the United Nations in New York and falls in love with a Swiss-educated South Sea island beauty on the UN staff. There are three parallel sub-plots threaded throughout the novel involving a coup by assassination in Russia, a New York mayor who declares war on international organizations and gets away with it, and a U.S. president who has to be briefed on the rudiments of governance at every cabinet meeting.
In 2084 AD should be very popular in Washington, on college campuses, both among students and faculty (those who can read), and lastly with the general public. The book would make a great TV series, rescuing viewers from the present diet of crooked-but-human, medical-and-legal-but human, dumb cops-but-human and stupid- stupid-but-human shows that dominate prime time. A series based on In 2084 AD would be more in the outrageously-funny-but-who cares category. Ages 15 to senile and beyond. As a matter of fact, an excellent temporary cure for senility.