Spying inside the Iraqi Embargoed Zone is risky business. Agent Cobra has been doing just this, and is now due his payment. But there?s a snag: his spymaster, Captain Smith, is broke. All Smith can offer Cobra is the mysterious Toploader. Discontent with this arrangement, Cobra quickly offloads the device, and returns to haranguing Smith for cash. Yet senior military personnel soon learn that Toploader is no longer in their possession. Panic ensues, and a frantic operation is launched to retrieve it. Caught in the ensuing crossfire are Flora; a plucky teenage orphan; Cooper, a reporter with a penchant for the wrong end of the stick; and Moon, a hapless drone pilot. The Toploader is about to make all of their lives a lot more dangerous, and a hell of a lot more bizarre. Toploader is a wonderfully original novel that serves as a razor-sharp satire on the absurdity of war, and how the depersonalization of death and injury is meant to make it acceptable.
