Nukes ended most of society. Now all that’s left is taxes.Arthur McDowell works for the most indestructible employer left in post-apocalyptic America: the IRS. Safe and sound inside a government bunker, Arthur is proud to be just another drone. But for an ambitious man (and excellent typist) such as Arthur, a promotion to supervisor is just around the corner.Arthur’s world flips when instead of a … corner.
Arthur’s world flips when instead of a becoming supervisor, the brass makes him a census-taker. His task: to head out into the irradiated streets armed with paperwork and red tape. Assigned to him is a drug-addicted bodyguard, Rabia Duke, who could care less if they survive.
All’s well at first, but after Arthur is confronted by a warlord, he realizes that the only thing that can save them all is a massive audit. Because even above radiation, roving gangs, and starvation, what the world should fear the most remains bureaucracy. A happy bureaucracy.
Brazil by way of Mad Max, M.P. Fitzgerald’s A Happy Bureaucracy is a bleak and hilarious look at the wheels of a system that keep turning even when nothing else is left. Get your copy today!
Readers can’t put down A HAPPY BUREAUCRACY and compare it to Hunter S. Thompson meets Fallout 3!
This is absolutely the funniest dystopian novel I have ever read. ★★★★★-Kindle Reviewer
A gonzo action packed, dark humored thrill ride that keeps you craving more madness after every page. Really looking forward to the next book ★★★★★-Kindle Reviewer
I strongly feel that this book should be read for the context of this sentence if for no other reason: ‘His hideous wattle blew in the wind’. I was disgusted and deeply amused at the same time. ★★★★★-Kindle Reviewer
One part Fallout equal parts Mad Max and a pinch of Fear and Loathing with a lot of entertaining dark humor. ★★★★★-Kindle Reviewer
Filled with violence, lots of drinking, and crazy lines that will buzz through your head when you’re in bed at 3am, this adventure is the dark comical version of Mad Max. ★★★★★-Kindle Reviewer
Buy it, read it. Great fun, totally original and different take on the the world after the apocalypse. I can’t wait to read the follow on adventures of the characters. ★★★★-Kindle Reviewer
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Not the story I thought it was going to be. And believe me, when I say, that is a very good thing. My preconception was of an Americanized version of the old British humor movies, Carry On. I expected dumbed down motives and silliness. Well… there is some silliness, but it is a higher quality of silliness.
Arthur is a second-generation Taxman. He has paperwork in his blood and a clicky pen for every occasion. He tows the company line and does what it takes to go out into the death and destruction that is the leftovers of a post-nuclear war America to collect the IRS’ fair share of assets to keep the government of the USA going. It’s not the IRS’s fault that none of the Governmental agencies had the forethought to have a solid plan in place to ride out the war and continue operations as normal. (abnormal?)
He is teamed up with Enforcer Rabia who is once, twice, three times a survivor of the United Wastes. Her mother taught her well the rules of surviving. She lives on a high octane supply of everything one should think twice about putting into their bodies. and then some. If you grew up with what she did, you might too.
What happens on their first assignment together will lead you to see how surviving is not always the best option and trust can be given before it is earned.
There are some seriously demented characters in the pages of Mr. Fitzgerald’s story. What they do and say are almost normalized by the horror of surviving a war that destroys a nation and all sense of normalcy with it. One character we meat (hehe I said meat) early on is a young girl who goes first by the name of Cow, and then, more accurately as Dinner. Every debased thing you can think of is an option on the table, but yet to Arthur, she is an asset to be taxed. What Arthur has planned for her back at the IRS bunker is not what I thought he would do at first. But you do what you gotta do to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. His actions set up nicely what happens on his assignment with Rabia.
As I said at the beginning, this is not the story I expected, but it is a story I am glad I read. The characters are, not fully developed, but well on their way to getting there. That’s because they are evolving with events and growing. That, my friends, is how you write a good story. Well… it helps if you have a talent for putting wort to page and a wonderful sense of off the wall humor. I seriously recommend this story to anyone who can take a joke and suspend being PC for just a little bit while enjoying this fast-paced read.
Death and Taxes are all that are left in this Apocalyptic book. This is a heck of a fun read.
Amazing book! Even though the idea of the IRS (and yes, we mean the taxes collectors) surviving the apocalypse is already excellent. The author indeed pull that off really well.
In the story we follow the best auditor ever in the growing process of discovering that the world is still corrupt. His inside turmoil is quite funny still, even wile raising important questions to reflect.
There are lots of action and cool characters, so it’s a book for everybody’s tastes (romance and humor included).
The thing that I think is well told is the problematic of how can a single man spread such evil (a bit like the nazis, right?…) and what can a single man do facing that.
Even thought this is a self contained story, the saga does not end here, so I look forward to see what will come next.
A wonderful post-apocalyptic novel about the American wastelands and its factions. Including one that survived the Holocaust. The second book in the series, but can be read first. A surviving bureaucracy did make it to post-apocalyptic America. I won’t give it away but yes, it is part of the US government, and it fits like a $2 bill.
This story has it all, love, action, a bad@$$ enemy, conspiracy, betrayal, guns, money, drugs, pretty women firing guns… You get my drift, read this book, you won’t be sorry! 😀
When the world as we know it is destroyed by Nuclear Armageddon, the only vestige of the old way of life is the IRS. The old adage about all that is certain in life is death and taxes certainly rings true in the United Wastes. This is a funny but distorted account of how life might go on after almost everything is dead. I always knew the IRS would take whatever they could get their hands on…bullets, kids (calories), or whatever the IRS decided was valuable.
I received a copy of this from the author, and it is a scream…not just funny but prophetic??
What a refreshing read! I absolutely love the two main characters. Worlds apart yet worlds collide .
What’s your name?
Dinner.
‘Nuff said.