New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s
first novel—the cult classic dystopian cyberpunk tale—now
back in print after twenty years in a special signed,
collectible edition.
Welcome to the near future: Los
Angeles in the late 21st century—a segregated city of haves
and have nots, where morality is dead and technology rules.
Here, a small group of wealthy seclude themselves in gilded
cages. Beyond their high security compounds, far from their
pretty comforts, lies a lawless wasteland where the angry
masses battle hunger, rampant disease, and their own despair
to survive.
Jonny was born into this Hobbesian
paradise. A street-wise hustler who deals drugs on the black
market—narcotics that heal the body and cool the mind—he
looks out for nobody but himself. Until a terrifying plague
sweeps through L.A., wreaking death and panic. And no one,
not even a clever operator like Jonny, is safe.
His
own life hanging in the balance, Jonny must risk everything
to find the cure—if there is one.