Zen: Life and Death In the Biggest Little City In the World

4th in the Bill Keane series, we find Bill a career bureaucrat pondering retirement when once again the psychotic ruling class comes knocking on his door to unburden him from the banality and middling mediocrity of a cushy government job and send him at light speed through the intrigues of ruling class mind games. This time around, he's promised some of the deepest, darkest secrets of the most secretive of all societies which may or may not include archaic directives charting the fate of all humanity.