You are dying. Who do you kill?
The novel is set in a near-future America (2026), which has had two terms of a Trump Presidency, and is now in the first term of Donald's daughter as president. So imagine an America where the populist policies Trump is so keen to pursue, have been a reality for some years and are getting even more extreme - an erosion of abortion rights, very little gun control, xenophobic immigration policies, etc, etc.
Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, a good man, has just been given a terminal diagnosis. Rather than compile a bucket list of all the things he's wanted to do in his life, he instead has at the ready his 'fuck-it list'. Because Frank has had more than his fair share of tragedy in his life. And he has a pretty good idea who is to blame for all of tragedies that have befallen him.
But eventually, as he becomes more accustomed to dishing out revenge and the stakes get higher and higher, and with a rogue county sheriff on his tail, there only remains one name left at the bottom of his fuck-it list. The orange-haired bastard himself.
The Fugitive meets No Country for Old Men meets a comic The Day of the Jackal, The F*ck-it List is part political satire, part compulsive thriller.
