Occupy Wall Street and Burning the Banker

The Occupy movement, OccupyWallSt.org, doesn’t appear by name in Burning the Banker, but the common thread between the novel and that  movement is the anger against the income divide between Roche and people like him — the top 1% — and the rest of us who make up the 99%.  The difference:  Occupy used the tactics of the Arab Spring to achieve its ends, and encourages nonviolence, while Bob and JJ use darker means that are suitable only for fiction.