Red Pill: A Novel

At first I was unclear whether Red Pill was a memoir. It seemed to be told from the point of view of the author. However, it gradually becomes clearer that it is a work of fiction. The narrator gets a chance to work for 3 months in a German institute to focus on his work. However, he discovers that there is an expectation of communal work rather than privacy. He gradually gets to know some of the people in the town and gets exposed to an extreme right-wing police show "Blue Lives". The novel is filled with ironic contrasts. (One academic goes in a tirade against privace - after the narrator discovers that IT is watching him via a hidden camera in his room.)  He drifts to the negative view of society where the masses are nothing more than drones. The novel ends with the "bleakness" of a Trump election.