Digital Dreams - Noir futuristic techno-thriller set in 2046
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Upcoming author Martin Hacks delivers a movie-like sci-fi thriller that will keep you turning pages.
Year 2046. Billions of people go to work in virtual rooms where they control their android avatars in another place of the planet. A new level of insane globalization. A master criminal mind has drafted a project that will question the purpose of technology in our society. Just when androids are only one step away from replacing humans at most tasks.
Jacques Binet, a French intelligence agent, finds himself at the center of a hurricane of exponentially increasing crimes. It will have to collaborate with internet police "WebPol", take controls of an android in Manila, look for a criminal in a maze of "control rooms"... all while fighting his own troubled past.
A "Dan Brown meets Minority Report" novel... Digital Dreams is racing action, movie-like scenes, technologies from the near future. Staged between the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Manila, the reader will face an intriguing puzzle of crimes, tension "In crescendo" and unthinkable scale of crimes to be solved.
If you are a fan of writers like Richards E- Douglas or Daniel Suarez, movies like Blade Runner or Minority Report and series like Black Mirror, take a look at Digital Dreams!
From the back cover:
An exhilarating blend of action-packed missions, mind-blowing technologies, ethical dilemmas and memorable characters that will keep the pages turning. Welcome to Digital Dreams!
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