"Paul F. Gleeson's hardboiled fiction paints characters who live in swirling cesspools of corrupt human nature in a rich, distinct voice that's not to be missed."
"-- David Cranmer, editor of BEAT to a PULP"

Paul F. Gleeson was a successful Chicago lawyer who died in 2012, at the age of 70. He was also my father. Among his belongings we found a boxful of typed manuscripts from the 1970s and 80s. It turned out they were short stories he had written. These were great stories in the "pulp fiction" tradition, tales of crime and punishment, and strange characters committing dark deeds....

This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social division and economic insecurity. This book considers how these threats are encountered and countered in the urban age, focusing on the issue of human knowledge and self-awareness, just as Hannah Arendt's...