The Hollywood Spiral

From the author of Apathy and Other Small Victories, this darkly comic novel set in the near future about the race to find a missing cyber program with the power to bend reality-all before a fast-approaching comet destroys the earth.

In the near future, after the internet grinds to a halt amid a wave of cyber-attacks, a company named Zodiac steps in to replace it with an evolved, augmented-reality version called The Grid.

Harrigan, a hard-drinking private detective living as off-Grid as p...