Try finding someone who isn't fed up with politicians, bankers and the general air of malaise that permeates this rotten year of our Lord 2009. So it's time for a new sort of hero, an anti-hero. It's time for a man called Tomas. A man who comes from the ranks of abundant celebrity, a star of a popular TV show that requires him to traipse the Earth and curl out a stinking turd on some of the world's most famous venues. This is his story, and it involves murder, resurrection, bankers, love, prostitution, time travel and telekinetic aliens.

In this new novel from James Palumbo the world that currently both suffocates and liberates us is brought to vivid life in all its bloated, beguiling glory. Indignation, outrage and a general sense of maverick abandon are his weapons, so come on a journey that is, like our modern world, terrifying and bewitching in equal measure.

To illustrate this nefarious world the book inhabits are three short animations, showing us the dark heart at the centre of the corruption that this fantastical novel so despises.

Be careful out there, if you're noming down on a bit of raw eggplant for lunch while sitting in the local park, taking in the last of the autumn sun, wondering why you didn't at least grill the damn thing, then be mindful. While the crisp radiant sun, the clean air, the hum of lazy autumn activity, along with the golden hues of the slowing-down earth make eating unprepared eggplant palatable, that vegetable is out of season.

Which means that if this man and his mission find you, your perishables could perish. This deadly marksman's set his sights on rooting out all unseasonal veg. If you're eating greens that are out of season, this assassin will exterminate them with extreme prejudice, and little conscience.

Next time you're eating marrow for dinner, make sure it's between the months of August and October, or consider yourself responsible for its untimely death from his eco-friendly firearm.