Jonas L scher, the author of Barbarian Spring --a most humorous and convincing satire of the ridiculous excesses of those responsible for the financial crisis ( The New York Times Book Review )--returns to the topic of neoliberal arrogance in his Swiss Book Prize-winning, hilarious, and wicked novel about a man facing the ruins of his life, and his world.
Richard Kraft , a German professor of rhetoric and aging Reaganite and Knight Rider fan, is .