Jake Trapper isn't your average organ acquisition specialist. He's the best in L.A. But Jake has a soft spot for underdogs and his current case is Angel, a young girl from a broken home. She needs a kidney. So Jake makes a deal with a broker and gets seduced into the kidney business.

When a potential organ donor is killed, Jake meets LAPD Homicide Detective Megan Densmore who enlists Jake to help with the investigation. Enter Special Agent Fuller, a Fed looking into the black market angle. He's an oddball with an architecture fetish and an endless supply of strange tales to tell.

As more bodies surface, Special Agent Fuller turns a suspicious eye toward Jake and the noose tightens, threatening to reveal Jake's dirty little secret.

'One of the funniest, most off-beat thrillers in years.' The Times

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'Bill Fitzhugh just gets better and better.' Christopher Moore

'A thrilling tale of science run amok... laugh-out-loud send-ups of the madness of modern life.' Booklist