Murder Bimbo

A thirty-two-year-old sex worker is stunned when undercover government agents recruit her for a covert plot to assassinate a right-wing politician known only as "Meat Neck." She carries out the job — and only afterward understands why she was chosen: she is completely disposable. Now hunted, hidden in an off-the-grid cabin with two days, her wits, and a laptop, she races to save her own life the only way she can think of: by telling her story.

She pours it out in a frantic series of emails to Justice for Bimbos, a wildly popular feminist investigative podcast, laying out how she was recruited and trained by a cabal of code-named operatives. Then she starts another message, this one to her ex — and the facts begin to rearrange themselves. As her competing accounts multiply, the truth of what happened grows impossible to pin down.

Rebecca Novack's debut is a fractured, satirical literary thriller with a sharp ear for the language of the moment — a slippery, darkly funny interrogation of truth, disposability, and optics in contemporary American life.