Field Reporting

Rennie Shannach, an embattled government worker and struggling writer, relieves the boredom of an office presentation by writing a soft-porn episode about Captain Nookie, a pulp fiction anti-hero he'd conceived during his college years, on his agency's mainframe computer. His supervisors find the piece and bring it to Vanna Morph, their agency's sexually-charged commissioner, hoping she'll terminate him. Instead, Morph finds Shannach's fictional creation intriguing and wants to learn more about the masked man. Shannach's subsequent field reports on his rental subsidy inspections combine with the sexually-charged world of human services to create a battleground of farce and frenzy so encompassing that he even battles with the author over his role as narrator while fantasy and reality become not only interchangeable, but indelibly linked.