The Last Iota

Los Angeles, 2039. The city teeters on the edge of order and anarchy, its heart still scarred by the Collapse of 2028. The Disincorporated Zone—a sprawling, lawless territory carved from LA’s remains—is where truth goes to die, and where detective work comes with hazard pay. Which makes it the perfect playground for Erasmus Keane, eccentric "phenomenological inquisitor," and Blake Fowler, his long-suffering partner with a loaded gun and a functional sense of reality. When dying media mogul Selah Fiore hires them to recover a rare physical coin tied to the digital currency iota, things spiral faster than a crypto bubble. Then Selah turns up dead. And Fowler’s girlfriend Gwen vanishes. Now fugitives, Keane and Fowler must navigate rogue warlords, vengeful billionaires, and corrupt officials in a city where everyone’s for sale and no one is safe. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes: the coin isn’t just rare—it’s a key to a conspiracy stretching from the Disincorporated Zone to the highest levels of power. Fast-paced, razor-sharp, and wickedly clever, The Last Iota is the explosive follow-up to The Big Sheep, a hardboiled sci-fi mystery where the future’s so corrupt, you’ll need a sarcasm filter just to breathe.