The Opulent Life Option: A dystopian science fiction novel wrapped in an apocalyptic mystery. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798707310614)

In a world where the reanimated dead are sold for pleasure and profit, a police officer must choose between saving humankind or saving his wife.

Resurrected corpses, branded Bags by the Opulent Life Option Corporation (a.k.a. OLO), displace most living workers within a decade of their inception and become the North American Republic's workforce. The strangling inflation that follows compels the masses to answer the question that OLO's ubiquitous advertisements ask: "Is a decade of pleasure better than a lifetime of suffering?" Those who answer yes by signing OLO's contract and selling the last decades of their lives for a few opulent years, escape starvation until they are processed into Bags on their expiration dates. The rest live a grim existence on the streets where they compete with other uncontracteds for the few resources that are not wanted by the contractees or the wealthy Maestros who own Bags.

OLO's existence is threatened when Brandon Kirby, the company's founder, disappears with the formula for making Bags and fumbles it into the hands of a freelance cop named Leon Deer. Leon must then choose between saving the species from the conflagration sparked by OLO that is consuming humankind or satisfying an obsession to save his wife's corpse from a nightmarish existence servicing Maestros in a brothel of the dead. Leon burrows under the surface of OLO's dystopian world in search of a solution and finds that he is part of a mystery that leads beyond the limits of his reality to a shocking revelation about his wife and himself.