Things are bad for outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem. He's lost his job and everything he owns, he's been diagnosed with an untreatable and almost certainly terminal brain infection, and he's being hunted by professional assassins paid for by the President of the United States. Even so, Spider has a smile on his face and a song in his heart. Why? because he and his filthy assistants have picked up the trail of corruption that the President has left behind. Because the loose ends of murder and deceit are about to get tied together. And because he's got the truth on his side and nothing left to lose.