He is the City's conscience. He is an abuser of animals, a drug user, a wannabe fornicator. He is a sorry sight and he is your last hope. He's a damned fine protagonist. Once upon a time, Spider was a journalist, but then he wrote Shot in the Face , a book about a presidential election, and things started to go downhill.
Fame is harsh.
Five years ago, he moved out of the City to a mountain. The advantages were that it was quiet and there were no people to pain him with their troubles. The disadvantage was that he couldn't write outside the City. Then, under threat of a lawsuit, he returned to the City so that he could write again. And his love-hate relationship with the City picked up exactly where it had left off.