Last Resort - Maurice Jones

Failed union demagogue and cash-strapped council boss Arnie Ratledge sees a way back up the national political ladder by 'exporting' a Lancashire town's financially draining care-home folk to specially converted, cut-price Thai resorts. It's greeted as a revolutionary concept that could solve the entire demographic and economic nightmare the elderly pose in the West. But widespread initial enthusiasm wavers as sex-related deaths thin the ranks and darker agendas are suspected. Maurice Jones's darkly humorous debut novel will strike a chord with all generations for one chief reason: what's suggested might actually happen.