Description: Welcome to Los Angeles--where anger, hunger and disease run rampant. Jonny is a black-market dealer in drugs that heal the body and cool the mind. All he cares about is his own survival. Until a strange new plague turns L.A. into a city of death, and Jonny is forced to put everything on the line to find the cure. If it can be found on Earth.
Brief description: Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir series. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon's "100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime." Some of Kadrey's other books include The Grand Dark, The Everything Box, The Flesh King, and Butcher Bird. In comics, he's written for Lucifer, Hellblazer, Heavy Metal, and Z2. He also records with the band A Demon In Fun City.