JENNIFER GOVERNMENT PB – MAX BARRY

"In Max Barry s twisted, hilarious and terrifying vision of the near future, the world is run by giant corporations and employees take the last names of the companies they work for. It s a globalised, ultra-capitalist free market paradise! Hack Nike is a lowly merchandising officer who s not very good at negotiating his salary. So when John Nike and John Nike, executives from the promised land of Marketing, offer him a contract, he signs without reading it. Unfortunately, Hack s new contract involves shooting teenagers to build up street cred for Nike s new line of $2,500 trainers. Hack goes to the police – but they assume that he s asking for a subcontracting deal and lease the assassination to the more experienced NRA. Enter Jennifer Government, a tough-talking agent with a barcode tattoo under her eye and a personal problem with John Nike (the boss of the other John Nike). And a gun. Hack is about to find out what it really means to mess with market forces."