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.
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Although the Occupy Wall Street movement has failed (a position taken by its own web site), the anger that formed its base remains. I wrote this novel out of that anger. I found it cathartic. Although I hope readers will also, we need more than catharsis: we need change. I’m not sure who I’m going to vote for in the upcoming Presidential election, but I know for whom Bob and JJ would vote: Bernie Sanders.