Joshua Blake

Dallas is drowning. A hurricane has flooded the streets. A casino runs on soul-debt. A platform called TRAGIX lets citizens bet on real crimes in real time, payouts cascading as bodies drop. The city's lights stay on because someone, somewhere, is suffering. Detective Danny Hughes has seen too much and felt too little. Hardened, sardonic, haunted by a woman named Carlene, he moves through a city that has quietly legalized human misery.
But Danny is more than a detective. Root Races is a noir-occult crime novel where the economy of suffering is not a metaphor. And the machinery underneath reality has been running for a very long time.