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The final curtain call
REVIEW: With globalisation spreading its tentacles across the planet and Corporate America throttling the Third World with debt ... while GM crops taint the fields and pollute the gene pool ... while diseased cattle roast on funeral pyres and protesters are rounded up and sent to prison – what can a Devonshire farmer based at Tapeley Park do to halt the madness?
Maybe it’s his daughter, Annie, who can carry the cause forward. Here she tells his story, partly seen through her own young eyes, and partly through accounts of protest and punishment detailed in his own diaries. Either way, it’s a harrowing – but sometimes hilarious – saga of war against a sick system.
Maybe when Harold Smith, political altruism personified, calls the Revolution from his village refuge in Italy, humanity can finally haul itself out of the mire, live a life with less fear and greed, and face the post-collapse 2020s with a greater sense of fairness, tolerance and spirituality.
“A terrifying glimpse of what could be our future. Hector Christie certainly knows his subject. However, this book offers positive and guidance, provided we collectively do our bit now.” Gary Lineker
From: Sarah Jane Lovett (Evening Standard Journalist)
It's hats off the Hector Christie, Blair saboteur and activist who arrived at the launch of his novel "The Final Curtain Call", in a car powered by bio-diesel: "It's made by a local guy from oil left over from the local restaurants," he said: "And it represents the first cutting of links with Esso. I am jubilant. "The room upstairs at the Charing X Gallery in the West End was surely full of fans, not least Michael Meacher and Stanley Johnson as well as his parents Sir George and Lady Christie who urged her son: "Don't go on for too long darling." Hector put out a plea: "To the landowners here, of which there are several. Choose wind farms otherwise we will have nuclear," he said before adding: "With my grandfather's money I plan to turn our home of Tapeley Park totally green. We will be an example to others. Every bit anyone does you must remember will make a difference." Stanley Johnson meanwhile himself about to go off to Borneo on a mission to save orang-utans told me: "I am going to read Hector's book on the flight, he is indisputably sans pareil this really is fantastic stuff."Michael Meacher, Christie's comrade in arms in the GM debacle was similarly fulsome in his praise, "He is determined, caring, fun as well as mocking of authority. He may have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth but my God he cares about the world and doing his best to make it a better place. He's actually a huge inspiration."
To Purchase this book
Please send a cheque for £11.00 (which includes postage and packing) to Hector Christie, Tapeley Park, Instow, north Devon, EX39 4NT
