10th July, 2025 in Recommended Reads

The Invisible Hand by Douglas Cole

“I’m telling you it isn’t worth anything to begin with. I’m telling you it’s an illusion. Money won’t buy you respect from the people who lived with it their whole lives. It won’t buy you a world you can’t already touch. It won’t give you anything that won’t exact something from you in return.” The novel, The Invisible Hand, by Douglas Cole, delves into the depths that actions, both benevolent and malevolent, resonate within society via an invisible hand. As is the tendency of human nature to act without regard for said hand, we mar its course through our emotions, needs, or desire for more. Cole exposes the weight of self-interested acts, even those necessary for a character’s mental or physical survival, and the detrimental results that may occur. Through a flowing narrative, The Invisible Hand explores a broad array of touching character-drive situations and the limited level of impact we may actually have in fighting against a system barely sustaining many of us.