After the United States is broken up into several small nations, the portion of the continent still calling itself the U. S. A. converts their economic model so that their currency is backed by a class of Longevity drugs. These drugs lead to over-population which makes the colonization of Mars imperative and people must have enough Hours and Cents in their accounts to equal age thirty to stay on Earth. A new type of theft and fraud is created whereby the scammers try to drain people's accounts. This is bad enough, but vampires learn that the new drugs make it unnecessary for them to drink blood to live, and they wade into the new type of fraud wholeheartedly. When the Treasury Department's ace investigator learns that her mother is a centuries old vampire and the baddest of the bad, she also learns that one of her mother's victims is also her half-brother. 104,886 words, 326 pages.
