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"The Matrix meets Blade Runner." -Nicholas Sansbury Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Divers, on Grand Theft AI
If you thought the Glitch was bad, that's nothing compared to a Federal Virtual Detention Construct.
The world is faster, looser, and deadlier than ever. Why slot digital dreams behind your ear when you can implant the real thing: cybernetic augments offer superhuman abilities beyond imagination-if you can afford them …
After hitting the hottest dancebot club in the world and pulling off the score of the century, Ria Rose and Baz Covane full-on bolted, off grid, all the way to a beach in the Tahitian Protectorate. The fixer, her battle-scarred lover, and their crew got out-escaping the grind and their haunted pasts.
But the world in the rearview is jacked. And our heroes just might be the reason why-since the fiery finale of Grand Theft AI is being used by psychopath technocrat, Ken Cates, to justify a quarter-million android soldiers rounding up anyone suspected of betraying the human species, aka, 99.99% of Americans who can't afford an augment waiver.
Wirecrime's Sentry Squads patrol the city by day. Human-first Redblood gangs roam its streets at night. Step out of line, and you find yourself before an Augment Review Board, fighting for what human rights are left in a system rigged to relocate the masses to urban augment wards, a veritable prison sentence, or worse …
FVDC Angola. The Alcatraz of the South.
When Baz gets pinched and locked up, suddenly Ria must mastermind a raid on the prison industrial complex's ultimate stronghold-even if her ace-in-the-hole AI, Fastlight, lacks the firepower to hack through PRISM, the vicious rehab sim deep inside Angola.
So, Ria and her crew of misfits have a choice.
Stay out and stay safe?
Or fight for what's right and dive back in.
"The Matrix meets Blade Runner."
If you thought the Glitch was bad, that's nothing compared to a Federal Virtual Detention Construct.
The world is faster, looser, and deadlier than ever. Why slot digital dreams behind your ear when you can implant the real thing: cybernetic augments offer superhuman abilities beyond imagination-if you can afford them …
After hitting the hottest dancebot club in the world and pulling off the score of the century, Ria Rose and Baz Covane full-on bolted, off grid, all the way to a beach in the Tahitian Protectorate. The fixer, her battle-scarred lover, and their crew got out-escaping the grind and their haunted pasts.
But the world in the rearview is jacked. And our heroes just might be the reason why-since the fiery finale of Grand Theft AI is being used by psychopath technocrat, Ken Cates, to justify a quarter-million android soldiers rounding up anyone suspected of betraying the human species, aka, 99.99% of Americans who can't afford an augment waiver.
Wirecrime's Sentry Squads patrol the city by day. Human-first Redblood gangs roam its streets at night. Step out of line, and you find yourself before an Augment Review Board, fighting for what human rights are left in a system rigged to relocate the masses to urban augment wards, a veritable prison sentence, or worse …
FVDC Angola. The Alcatraz of the South.
When Baz gets pinched and locked up, suddenly Ria must mastermind a raid on the prison industrial complex's ultimate stronghold-even if her ace-in-the-hole AI, Fastlight, lacks the firepower to hack through PRISM, the vicious rehab sim deep inside Angola.
So, Ria and her crew of misfits have a choice.
Stay out and stay safe?
Or fight for what's right and dive back in.
"The Matrix meets Blade Runner."
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