Book Description

When Janine, Aiden Fesyo's long-term girlfriend, announces she's earned a promotion and is leaving, she also informs him that he has a four-year-old child out there somewhere. Janine vows the child will never be found. Aiden believes otherwise. In his search, he encounters people linked to members of the latest team on the "HorrorShow," a 3D sorreality contest where contestants pass through nine circuses on California Island to win a trillion-dollar prize. The team consists of a spangled banner of races and troubled pasts, assembled by the government to stave off bankruptcy. There's a gay Hispanic gymnast whose lover died of retroviral plague; a Native American stunt coordinator whose cowardice caused a catastrophe; an Aborigine swimmer obsessed with her brother's death; a genetically engineered "fiteball" player caught in a point-shaving scandal; a Bosnian movie star who strangled a starlet; a Japanese American prostitute and assassin; and an African American "bizzyball" player, dreaming of the child she aborted. The team contends with hot-headed centaurs, homunculi bikers, mutant hairdressers, clumsy ninjas, talk show hosts in army tanks, and distortion fields that carry them through space and time. Aiden and the team unite in a climactic encounter with a triple-bodied Satan, who explains why God is playing a game with the universe.