A third-two-year-old sex worker is shocked when she’s approached by undercover government agents to aid them in a top-secret plot to assassinate a politician known as Meat Neck. But once the deed is done, she realizes what-made her the perfect recruit: She’s 100 per cent disposable.

Holed up in an off-the-grid cabin in the woods, she now has only two days, her wits, and a laptop to save her own life.

Her best bet is to reach out to the wildly popular feminist investigative podcast Justice for Bimbos, in a hastily typed series of emails, the newly minted “Murder Bimbo” explains how she was recruited and then trained by a cabal of code-named US agents to take out Meat Neck.

Then she opens a new email. This time, it’s addressed to her ex, and the facts line up a little differently. 

Murder Bimbo is told through a series of emails from our protagonist, the titular “Murder Bimbo”, to a true crime podcast host and, later, to her ex-girlfriend, the story unravels how and why Murder Bimbo.

The sex worker who just killed extremist political hopeful Meat Neck. Holed up in an off-the-grid cabin in the woods, she now has only two days, her wits and a high-speed internet connection to save her own life. When she starts a new set of emails, this time addressed to her ex-girlfriend, we begin to realize that Murder Bimbo might not be the unsuspecting cog she claims to be. Introducing an unforgettable character for out times: hyper-articulate, totally untrustworthy, politically murky, charmingly petty, and wholly egotistical.

Murder Bimbo can be read as a gloriously bold literary thriller, a satirical vigilante’s manifesto, or a raucous send-up of the political instantly we all live inside every day. Either way, it’s a dead-serious announcement of an electric new voice in American literature.

MURDER BIMBO  by Rebecca Novack, Avid Reader Press/ Simon & Schuster, 224 pages.