Shovel Ready

'I don't want to know your reasons. I don't care. Think of me as a bullet. Just point.'

Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, before New York became a burnt-out shell. Now the wealthy escape grim reality by spending their days tapped into a virtual world; the rest of the population has to fend for itself on the streets. Now there's nothing but garbage.

So Spademan became a hit man. He doesn't ask questions, he works quickly, and he's very handy with a box-cutter.

When he's hired to kill the daughter of a high-profile evangelist, Spademan's life is upended. To survive, he will have to navigate two worlds - the slick fantasy world of the elite and the wasteland reality of the rest of the city's inhabitants - to finish the job, clear his conscience, and make sure he's not the one who winds up in the ground.