Book Description

Old Seattle 2069. The Internet has been dead for thirty-one years. North America is an ecological hellscape. The USA is a patchwork of hyper-political city-states and rogue nations. The police have disbanded. And somebody is killing Nobodies. In a searing cyberpunk vision of the future, the sinister Black Devilfish walks the endless rainy streets of an overpopulated megalopolis nightmare searching for his soul. The bizarre Devil power suit belies a hard-pressed insomniac struggling to find meaning in his aimless existence. Inhabiting a miserable pop-culture world-slathered with banal sex, everyday murder, and god-like techno-sorcery-the man inside the power-suit is lost. He spends his nights drowning his sorrows in Lysol sponges, calling a wife he can't remember, and stalking the streets for other ultra-famous Nobodies. But who are the Nobodies? In a future where only the ultra-rich can afford to be anonymous, the Nobodies run Old Seattle. Nobodies of 2069 are a ridiculous and lethal mix of psychotic Pokemon characters, self-righteous movie stars, ultra-entitled billionaires, real-life superheroes, and unarrestable war criminals-all at once. Wearing quantum-gen-powered armor suits, they do whatever they want, without any fear of reprisal. Behind the Nobody mask, their real identity remains a hermetic secret. After the brutal execution of ultra-famous mute pop singer Zarathustra Kardashian, it seems there's much more to the party-chasing Nobodies than meets the eye. Amid the mayhem, a new street drug hits the scene-Pfixion-a transcendental substance said to make the user feel they are a fictional character in a book or novel.Before long, the Devilfish is dragged into the multi-faceted world of Pfixion and the Nobodies. He soon spirals, losing all hold on his identity, his life, and his psyche. But then a new slew of Nobody slayings jolt the Devilfish into action, waking him from his amnesiac haze. In the end, the Devilfish's sense of honor and family will clash with the Nobody's world of lies and deceit-transforming him into a deadly harbinger of the truth. The real truth.