Demolition Night

<p>America the not-too-distant future. Citizens are indefinitely contracted to megacorporations in a system that is slavery in everything but name. Sundra Glassgarden one of the enslaved can’t take it anymore. To change her fate she steals a time machine with the goal of killing the mother of Octavio Velez the charismatic president who created this nightmare. Meanwhile in 1979 Archie London a pugilistic cop-turned-private eye is on his own messianic mission in decrepit New York single-handedly battling a gang he believes is a threat to life itself.<br /><br />Along the way Archie stumbles upon the most remarkable woman he has ever met: 21-year-old Lolita Velez. Waiting for Lolita—and love-struck Archie—is Sundra hell-bent on freeing her future by undoing the past. <em>Demolition Night</em> is a satirical yet haunting novel about love and fate and technology’s grim promise about the sibilating streets of New York and the utopias we can never have—and why we keep struggling anyway.</p>