Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Book: Trust
Close provides novel taste of bitter class betrayal
Trust
by Ajay Close
(Blackfriars, £9.99)
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