Before you is the most brutal thriller of the decade, a paradoxical novel about the underbelly of America. Leonardo DiCaprio is going to produce its film adaptation, staking out one of the main roles. However, they obviously won’t be able to fit into the picture much of what you read here. Ridley Scott, the founder of the famous “Aliens” and “Blade Runner” franchises, plans to bring another of Zahler’s books to the screen. “Rust Belt”, Missouri, the city of Victory is one of the most terrible holes in the United States. Detective Jules Bettinger, who angered his superiors, was sent here, to the frozen capital of scum, from sunny Arizona. Victory police were used to conducting business without paying attention to procedure or formalities. As an Arizonan, it is obvious that many people are not happy with this state of affairs. But it cannot even occur to him that someone would dare to declare an all-out terrible war on the local forces of law and order...