Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick

Zoey Ashe grew up in a trailer park. Now she lives in a mansion in Tabula Ra$a, a city where the wealthy have built everything to suit themselves and show little restraint with their cash. She runs the operation her dead father left behind, and she never asked for any of it.

The staff who came with the inheritance are competent and well armed. None of them is willing to let her step away from the job.

The danger this time comes from a crowd, not a rival crew. A movement forms online and settles on Zoey as the problem. It begins organising in public, with the feeds carrying every moment live and the audience voting on what should happen to her next.

This is near-future satire. The technology is absurd, while the way people behave around it is recognisably real. It is the second book in the Zoey Ashe series, following Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits.