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230 pages, Paperback
First published July 24, 2007
{...}eventually I realized I wasn't in hell, I was just in America.
—p.60
"He was a prick. I didn't like him. But he wasn't evil."This is a problem for her (as well as for Nevada's law enforcement, of course) because Jane herself is a Bad Monkey—one member of a clandestine organization whose very reason to exist is to do something about evil:
—p.3
"So in your job with Bad Monkeys," the doctor asks, "what is it you do? Punish evil people?"As Bad Monkeys progresses, the body count rises steeply, and it gets harder and harder to tell the good monkeys from the bad ones. And Jane isn't much help—turns out she's not the most reliable of narrators.
"No. Usually we just kill them."
"Killing's not a punishment?"
"It is if you do it to pay someone back. But the organization's not about that. We're just trying to make the world a better place."
"By killing evil men."
"Not all of them. Just the ones Cost-Benefits decides will do a lot more harm than good if they go on breathing."
—p.3