Take Out the Jocks

A feminist revenge comedy

Michael Wallace Nest

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Michael Nest
30 November 2023

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense

Ever wondered what would happen if the people afraid to go out at night were young men, not young women?

Kate, Carly, and Seyram, friends since childhood, are outraged by the acquittal of a local rapist and frustrated at the lack of progress with the #MeToo movement in their conservative community. They decide to reverse gender freedoms by targeting the town's jocks in a series of ever-more brazen attacks. On the case are local police, who can't conceive that middle-aged moms could be capable of such things. Also on their tail are the FBI and a local journalist who suspect their involvement.

Take Out the Jocks is a dark comedy of female vengeance that blows open literally a small American town.

Runner-up, 2024 Los Angeles Book Festival's 'Wild Card' category.

By: Michael Wallace Nest
Imprint: Michael Nest
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781738184019
ISBN 10: 1738184013
Pages: 382
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Nest grew up in rural Australia. After spending his twenties studying, travelling, and doing development assistance (foreign aid) work, he moved to New York City to do a PhD that included research in D.R. Congo and Zimbabwe. He has previously published four books. The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace (2006) won a Best Academic Title, 2006 award from the American Library Association. Coltan (2011) focuses on the exploitation of natural resources in Central Africa. Still a Pygmy: the unique memoir of one man's fight to save his identity from extinction (2015) is a collaboration with Mbuti (Pygmy) activist and businessman, Isaac Bacirongo, and is the first memoir ever published by a Pygmy author. In 2017, Michael moved to Montreal, Canada, where he collaborated on an investigation into one of Canada's most famous missing persons cases. This research was published as Cold Case North: the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett (with Deanna Reder and Eric Bell; 2020) and won SaskBooks' Creative Publishing Award, 2022. His day job is preventing fraud and corruption. Take Out the Jocks is his first novel.