This is Adam Sternbergh and it is a fantastic one. I picked this one up because it was in Barnes and Nobles authors you should check out section and boy were they write. We follow our main character of Spademan, a hit man, or how he describes himself, a garbageman. I don't know if it is right to call it a dystopian future novel, but at the same time I feel that it is fitting. Since most of the world is still the same-ish, but New York is now a wasteland. Spademan is given a job to find a girl, the daughter of a famous "evangelical" and "throw her away", he finds her and sees that she is not one to mess with, she has a little bit of mean streak, and when he finally catches up to her, he finds she has a few secrets to hide. Spademan must then navigate throw the real world and the fantasy world which most now escape all hours of the day and ensure he doesn't end up the one dead.
The grit all throughout is truly stunning. This is a short read, but one that is worth it. It is also regarded as good enough that supposedly they are creating a movie based on it with Denzel Washington attached to it.
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