The Taut, Unflinching New Thriller from Adam Sternbergh, Writer of the Critically-Acclaimed Shovel Ready

New York is toxic-decimated with a dirty bomb years ago. The limnosphere is usually a virtual secure haven-if you’re rich enough to get in. Spademan is certainly a hit man-box-cutter in the ready.

His latest job is to snuff out Reduced, a lowlife lurking around additional people’s fantasies. As Spademan is going to close the deal, Lesser comes back in the limn using a wild state: about Near Enemy: A Spademan Novel terrorists are preparing to attack New York. Again. This time around from the within out.

The warning sends Spademan down a dark route full of unsavory personas and startling revelations. A shadowy political fixer tells him of a long-running power struggle that will go all the way to Town Hall. A brilliant Egyptian radical brings Spademan to the strange far-reaches of the limn. And a lovely nurse holds the trick to what, and who, is behind these attacks-and she seems to want to help Spademan end them. But he is most effective alone. Roughly he thinks.

Spademan has always had his share of enemies, but now they’re coming at him from all sides and it’s difficult to know whom to trust. To remain sharp, his only choice might be the one thing he swore he’d never do again.