Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live off the grid, with no ties, no taxes, no commitments? To be a hired gun for a mysterious organization that pays you to do shady jobs across a dystopian America? To have so many aliases that you don't even know who you are anymore?

That's the life of Will Bear, the protagonist of Sleepwalk, a thrilling and darkly comic novel by Dan Chaon, the acclaimed author of Among the Missing and You Remind Me of Me. Will is a good-natured henchman with a complicated and lonely past and an LSD microdosing problem. He spends his time hopscotching across state lines in his beloved camper van, running sometimes shady, often dangerous errands for a powerful and ruthless operation he?s never troubled himself to learn too much about. He has lots of connections, but no true ties. His longest relationships are with an old rescue dog with posttraumatic stress, and a childhood friend as deeply entrenched in the underworld as he is, who, lately, he?s less and less sure he can trust.

But everything changes when he receives a call from a young woman claiming to be his biological daughter, Cammie. She says she?s the product of one of his long-ago sperm donations; he?s half certain she?s AI. She needs his help. She?s entrenched in a widespread and nefarious plot involving Will?s employers, and continuing to have any contact with her increasingly fuzzes the line between the people Will is working for and the people he?s running from.

Sleepwalk is a wild ride across an eerie near-future America in the company of a surprisingly endearing kidnapper, arsonist and hit man. With his signature blend of haunting emotional realism and fast-paced intrigue, Chaon populates his fractured America with characters who ring all too true. Gazing both back to the past and forward to an inevitable enough seeming future, Sleepwalk examines where we?ve been and where we?re going, and the curses and joys of being human that will never change, no matter how far we travel to dodge them, or how cleverly we hide.

If you're looking for a novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat, make you laugh out loud, and touch your heart, don't miss Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon. It's a masterpiece of speculative fiction that will haunt you long after you turn the last page.