If you want an all-action, well-written and intelligent novel to read in 2011, then look no further than this excellent conspiracy-theory thriller.
"Remote Control" has the delirious historical thrust of Don DeLillo's "Libra," the compulsive storytelling of Stephen King's "Running Man," and the obsessive paranoia of Philip K. Dick's "A Scanner Darkly."
This novel asks serious questions about the individual in society and then runs with them at full speed through the apartment blocks, freezing nights and storm drains of a very-near-future Sendai.