Synopses & Reviews
On September 11, 2001, the world was shaken to its foundations unlike on any other foundation-shaking day in the history of the world. Fortunately, Neal Pollack was a few miles away, in Brooklyn, and it only took him couple of hours to start writing.
Unlike any other writer since September 11, Pollack has had unrestricted access to world leaders and their evil plans to kill us all. He's traveled millions of miles, sometimes flying coach, to get the interviews and suck the dust necessary to shake us from our grief stupor. Beneath The Axis Of Evil is a tour of the interlocking circles of this Dantesque world. With passionate reporting, Pollack gives voice to the voiceless, and also voice to people who are on television all the time, but are still important. Life is a game and we are its pawns. Pollack understands that, and he has crafted a uniquely American account of our ongoing war and the end of the world that will endure against the events of September 11, 2001, and win the National Book Award. A lone copy will be found by survivors a decade from now, and to reclaim hope from the ashes of their shattered lives, they will hail it as the new gospel.
Pescient, thoughtful, with a chest made of brick, Neal Pollack is the only writer today who matters.
Review
"Axis of Evil is funnier and more assured than his first book....Long live Neal Pollack." Johns Hopkins Journal of American Politics
Review
"Its brevity ultimately works in its favor: Where the intermittently hilarious but uneven Anthology tended to belabor jokes, Beneath The Axis doesn't stick around long enough to overstay its welcome....[T]hose who found Anthology silly and self-indulgent will feel the same way about everything here. But for readers tuned into Pollack's frequency, it's a delightful lark." Nathan Rabin, The Onion AV Club
Review
"Because it is Pollack, who has taken temporary leave from the world of serious journalism...Beneath the Axis of Evil is funny. Because he is still a serious journalist, it is also angry. It is hard to say whether it is more or less funny for that anger." Geoff Kelly, Pittsburgh Pulp
Synopsis
A new book by the greatest living American author, Neal Pollack. Join Neal, an award winning war journalist, on his travels through pre-war-on-terrorism Afghanistan, Palestine, and most of the other evil-filled spots in the world. In times of war and crisis, great civilizations need great writers to write great things about crisis, and also war. You know who these writers are. Hemingway. Orwell. Twain. The guy who wrote the screenplay for The Deer Hunter. Now, another name must be added to that list. Neal Pollack.
About the Author
Neal Pollack is the Greatest Living American Writer. His first novel, Never Mind the Pollacks, will be published in the fall of 2003 by HarperCollins, and will be accompanied by an album from his band, The Neal Pollack Invasion. His satirical writing appears regularly in such publications as Vanity Fair, GQ, and The New York Times, as well as daily on his website, www.nealpollack.com. He lives unironically with his family in Austin, Texas.