Roar! - Martin Hayes

A roar of frustrated rage and pain at the way we live and work in the twenty-first century. It's a book about 11-hour shifts, sick-days, lay-offs, computer systems crashing and the joy of Friday afternoons. Dermot, Stacey, Shaq, Big Bri, Dexter the old-timer, Antoine, Mohammed, Jim the Letch, and Harry the head supervisor work for Phoenix Express couriers, located somewhere `between Stockholm Street and Syndrome Way', making money for other people and trying to make themselves heard above the roar of an economic system that `has us in its mouth and is shaking us about in its teeth'.