Publisher's Synopsis
A World Without Violence - Or Not
When your new employer asks you to investigate the first mass shooting in twelve years, it's understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant - a cybernetic implant - that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt, and erase memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns his suspect's PBA is also what allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her into a shooting rampage.
Guided and mentored by his veteran partner, Jeb Forrester, Cowan must chase this ruthless puppetmaster through a gauntlet of homicidal professional gamers, peddlers of algorithmic orgasms, the Russian mafia, and the board of OneWorld: the monolithic corporate entity that now owns the planet. And as Cowan learns more about the people he's working for and what their goals might be, it becomes increasingly hard to tell if he's working for the right side...
