

But now, Fischer, in his late 50s, shows signs of dementia a common cybernetic brain implant that could have prevented his Alzheimer’s would have also allowed people to track him, so he never had it installed. Eugene “Stacks” Fischer was a top hitman and troubleshooter for SynCorp bosses Tony One-point-oh and his son, Tony Two-point-oh he did his job well, eliminating rivals and revolutionaries. Spacegoing humanity in the future is dominated by the vast, amoral, profit-minded SynCorp, in a manner much akin to the Mafia, complete with shoutouts to Mario Puzo and The Godfather.

A hitman in the future finds himself a target when his advancing Alzheimer’s disease causes his boss to place him on a hit list-attracting killers from the Moon to Mars.
