The 21st century's toughest private eye in a future that's running down like a dime-store watch. Where the line between rich and poor is a DMZ and they clean the streets with meat wagons. If your not tough in a world like that, you're dead.

The 21st century's toughest private eye in a future that doesn't work, where crime is the national pastime & the su percorps have the cops in their hip pocket. In a world like that, you've got to be quick—or crazy. Mathew Swain is a little of both.Still reeling from the near death of the woman he loves, Swain tak es a contract from the Fish Man, head of a media conglomerate that plays w/reality like a baby plays w/fire. Swain's supposed to locate their prize anchorwoman, a sleek redhead who gets her kicks in t he city's sleaziest sex shops. Trying to keep ahead of a rival network that plays for keeps, he uncovers a plot to kill the Governor—and this time, even Swain's comrade-at-arms, Hermanita may not be able to save him.

Swain wasn't betting on his future. He'd returned home, wasted and flat broke, to find the city ravaged by a deadly plague. But when an old friend got fried before his eyes, Swain was back in business. The stakes were life and death for millions, including Swain's long-lost love. Odds were he'd die catching the murderer—if the plague didn't kill him first!