The Call-Girls

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The Call-Girls: A Tragi-Comedy with Prologue and Epilogue is a novel (ISBN 0-09-112550-2) by Arthur Koestler. The plot tells the story of a group of academic scientists struggling to understand the human tendency towards self-destruction, while the group members gradually become more suspicious and aggressive towards each other.

In this novel Koestler uses for the first time the term "coca-colonization" referring to the expansion of a type of eating (hamburgers, French fries, fat-rich snacks) and drinking (soft drinks high in sugar). Nowadays the term is widely used by physicians when they want to explain at least in part, the global expansion of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors.