NSTRA-14 freed the world of pain. Powerful and safe, without side effects or risk of addiction, it is the perfect painkiller.

But as the fact of pain disappears, there are those who mourn its loss, and a cult forms around the idea that suffering is a necessary part of the human condition. For members of the Order, NSTRA-14 is a source of evil; a rejection of God; inhuman.

Twelve years ago, these fanatics attacked the pharmaceutical company that created NSTRA-14, killing three people. Now, those involved are being found dead one by one. Signs of torture and traces of a pain-increasing drug are found in the bodies, alongside a note: 'The dead have been saved.'

As detectives work to understand these murders and the machinations of the Order, they reveal the ugly truth of what it takes to free the world of suffering.

At once an edge-or-your-seat speculative thriller and a powerful takedown of late capitalism, The Pain Chasers is culmination of so many of the prescient ideas in Bora Chung's sensational collection Cursed Bunny.