[Joe Dylan 05] • Fun City Punch

"(The) descriptions of the mad world he created are so cunning that they propel us back into our own desperate and crazy realities," Tom Vater, The Devil's Road.

"James Newman writes with a flamethrower. He's terrifically gifted and enormously energetic," Edgar nominated Timothy Hallinan.

'A world of conmen,cheaters, schemers, wanderers, and the lost' Shamus winning author Christopher G. Moore.

'A Fascinating hybrid of classic detective work and gritty ultra-detail' Ish Galvan author of Blubber Island.

'Hard-boiled pulp fiction pumped up to the max' Paul Brazill.

Imagine a world without cash.

A world with surveillance on every street.

A City where nobody trusts one another.

Welcome to Fun City. It is corrupt to the bone and under the ever watchful surveillance system known as the Eye.

Money has been abandoned in favor of the credit system.

All citizens are required by law to carry hand held devises.

Joe Dylan is recovering from the government attitude adjustment program known as the Punch since his credits reached zero.

His adopted son Jimmy is missing presumed dead and his basement office is infested with contrarian rats.

When Dylan is assigned the task of keeping socialite artist Trixie Sloane on the straight and narrow his pursuit of her leads him down into a sub-culture beneath the city where a vigilante Resistance force plan to strike out against the city before the last drop of human will and dignity is drained away.