Professor El-Haddad's life is nothing but problems: he's in debt up to his eyeballs, bored to tears at his job, and hasn't dated in years. Not to mention rent is due on his minuscule pod in West West Palm Beach. But none of that seems to matter after an impossible discovery plunges him into an underworld full of thugs, drugs, and digital bugs, cyberpukes and synthesists, anarchists, androids, and assassins. His quest for answers will take him to the edge of civilization and sanity itself in this unapologetic harassment of the novel as art form. Science fiction meets southern gothic in this debut novel that will keep you guessing from the first page to the last!