A Terrible Thing To Waste

This is the sequel to For The Sake Of Art, and the second mystery in the Nathaniel Donne series. You're not going to buy this book. If you do, it's because you know the author and are doing him a favor and humoring him. Even if you do buy it, the odds of you reading it are slim. The total readership of the first book was somewhere in the neighborhood of thirteen. Not thirteen thousand. Thirteen total. You probably haven't even made it this far in the description. Despite streaming companies greenlighting series that have worse plots and far less imagination, you'll probably just watch something there because, let's face it, it's easier to do that than to read a book. Seriously. I don't even know why I'm bothering to write this description.

Anyway, if you made it this far, this is a dystopian hard-boiled detective novel set in a future Chicago. Nathaniel Donne, a clumsy and curmudgeonly private detective, is faced with the challenge of solving a suspicious suicide. Donne tries his best to navigate murderous robots, scheming billionaires, and a temperamental house cat. Set in a world that seems to have forgotten the value of human interaction, A Terrible Thing To Waste is a humorous if horrific satire. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett and Phillip K. Dick, it seeks to explore the concept of morality through the lens of a self deprecating hard boiled private eye.