The Faceless

In future not entirely impossible, all humans are controlled using fear, the fear that their bodies could turn against them, and destroy their lives, and status in society.

Nanobots are used to control crime, everybody has them, from unborn infant to dying elder. The single act of a crime is detected and then the nanobots do there work, thieves lose hands, liars lose tongues, murderers lose there minds due to the pain they receive.

This is the story of William Roth, an ordinary man who who was the first person to be wrongly accused of a crime since the use of nanobots to fight crime.