Author David Allan Cates has come up with a short, powerful, delightful ...hilarious, upsetting, uplifting, upbraiding story that's a perfect combination of Vonnegut, Voltaire, and Seinfeld.

-- Ken Krimstein in
Dusty Wright's Culture Catch

Closely imitating the format and plot of Voltaire's classic but updating its biting wit for modern readers, Cates skewers the current capitalistic enthusiasm for free trade while following the fortunes of a man known simply as X. Cates drives home with painful black humor the inequities of a global economy. Perhaps this should be required reading for die-hard capitalists and corporate CEOs.

-- Booklist