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The futuristic hardboiled noir that Lauren Beukes telephone calls "sharp as a paper-cut" about a garbage man switched kill-for-hire. Spademan used to be always a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb strike Times Square, before his wife was wiped out, and before the town became a blown-out shell of its former do it yourself. Now he's a hitman. In a near-future New York City split between those who find themselves rich enough to "tap in" to a sophisticated virtual reality, and the ones who are left to fend for themselves in the ravaged pavements, Spademan find the pavements. His new job is not that different from his old one: waste disposal is waste removal. He doesn't ask questions, he works quickly, and he's useful with a field cutter. But when his latest consumer hires him to get rid of the girl of a powerful evangelist, his unadorned life is upended: his draw has a shocking solution and his consumer has a sordid agenda far beyond a simple get rid of. Spademan must find their way between these two worlds - the wasteland certainty and the slick dream - to complete his job, clear his conscience, and make sure he's not the main one who winds up in the ground. Adam Sternbergh has written a dynamite debut: gritty, violent, funny, riveting, sensitive, and brilliant.
