Discovered on the hard drive of Sean Manseau’s home computer after his assassination in 2025, LAPDANCE is a magical realist techno-thriller set in dot-com era San Francisco.After Marshall becomes convinced his lost love Tsingtao is being driven to self-destruction by a parasitic psychic entity called the Black Rosa, his obsession with saving her becomes life-threatening as it brings him into conflict with Mister Ito, a powerful underworld figure who has made her the linchpin of his plans for a new world religion.By turns louche, comic, and sublime, LAPDANCE is wildly entertaining juvenilia, but its real value is as a document of Manseau’s nascent ideas regarding shamanic reality and the erotic aspect of longing for the Divine.