The futuristic hardboiled noir that Lauren Beukes calls “sharp being a paper-cut” in regards to a garbage man turned kill-for-hire.

Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the filthy bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was wiped out, and prior to the town became a blown-out shell of its former self.

Now he’s a hitman.

In a near-future NEW YORK split between those who find themselves wealthy more than enough to “faucet in” to a sophisticated virtual reality, and the ones who are remaining to fend for themselves in the ravaged roads, Spademan find the streets. When his latest customer hires him to kill the girl of a powerful evangelist, he must navigate between these two worlds-the wasteland truth as well as the slick fantasy-to surface finish his job, obvious his conscience, and make sure he’s not the one who winds up in the ground.