The Functional Equivalent

In the sweltering, corrupt underbelly of the Santa Catalina archipelago, an undercover narcotics cop named Daniel Cross infiltrates the toxic waste empire of Gabriel Della Costa. As Cross sinks deeper into the brotherhood of the Night Tide syndicate, he discovers that the supposed "demon" of ecological devastation is merely a man who has pushed the universal lust for power, purity, and belonging to its absolute, ruinous extreme. Written in the raw, muscular prose of Norman Mailer, this is a story of existential dread, where the line between hunter and hunted dissolves in a sea of poisoned identity, and the ultimate betrayal is of the self.