Game Control Author:Lionel Shriver Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper--despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductivel... more »y in Eleanor's ear, if the poor are a responsibility, they are also an imposition. Set against the vivid backdrop of shambolic modern-day Africe--a continent now primarily populated with wildlife of the two-legged sort--Lionel Shrivr's Game Control is a wry, grimly comic tale of bad ideas and good intentions. With a deft, droll touch, Shriver highlights the pypocrisy of lofty intellectuals who would "save" humanity but who don't like people.« less