They Don't Advertise for Killers

By Kais Alkuraishi

Los Angeles, 2039. Alex Krieg is a Death Enforcement Officer for the Los Angeles Department of Decongestion, an entity tasked with reducing traffic density by “subtracting” drivers—part of the city’s War on Traffic.

This is his last day on the job. He just doesn’t know it yet. His wife has left him, and he doesn’t know why. His partner’s been murdered, and he doesn’t know who the killer is. He’s got a new boss, and he doesn’t know if he can trust her.

Alex Krieg has questions—and a lot of blood on his hands.

“Not that good.”

—T. Crumley, author of Not That Good

“Powerful, gripping, stunning, captivating, devastating, masterful, brilliant, intense, and relentless.”

—Blurb Magazine

“I like how the words are not so close together like in other books they make you read.”

—Random fifth grader

“The kind of book that restores your faith in inhumanity.”

—Near Yorker