The man now known as Slade has had his head hollowed out. A brand new persona, a custom built replica of a vintage detective, guides him through the underbelly of a city in which fantasy and reality have become indistinguishable.

In this dark, cyberpunk vision of the future, personalities are bought and sold. An advertising algorithm has ascended to godhood. A cult of super-fans stalk a prominent industrialist. The dying government and the corporate powers edge ever closer to all out war. Once a federal drone, now a hardened investigator, Slade is plunged into a whirlwind romp of corporate backstabbing, cyber-gnostic mysticism, altered states of consciousness, and the relentless pursuit of leisure.

Brimming with novel ideas and dark humor, this novel is, at once, a descent through a nightmarish city, a genre-savvy homage to classic noir, cyberpunk, and body horror, and a scathing interrogation of the attention economy, perfect for fans of Philip K. Dick, China Miéville, J. G. Ballard or William Gibson.