I'm always intrigued when men write female leads for their gritty crime thrillers. I was really surprised reading the blurb to find that Evan, the "singular new hero for our time," is a woman. It was enough to make me read the First Look, and OOF. That is some dense, gritty noir prose, friend. Here's an example of what you're in for: "As someone who had lost the ability to find home or those with whom she had shared it, she supposed DC’s tissue-thin façade of respectability was a tonic she needed to drink from time to time, like medicine, to remind herself of mankind’s essential hypocrisy and the evil that arose from it." I guess with a title like "The Nemesis Manifesto" I should have been prepared for this level of... I'm not even sure what the word is. I didn't make it past one page through before I nope'd out of this one.