They Don't Care About Robots, Do They? - Jan Karlsson - Wattpad

They Don't Care About Robots, Do They?

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Reads 698
Votes 136
Parts 38
Time 5h 18m

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Once a cop, now a private eye. Once human, now a cyborg.

Dalton Steel had scraped a living investigating the things that were beneath the cops he used to work with. Except those cases that involved bots. Until a beautiful woman, a beautiful bot created to mimic a beautiful woman to perfection, hands him the case of a serial bot killer.

The investigation takes him from deepest, darkest pits, to the gleaming, cleanest Sectors of the Tether, where Dalton finds himself involved in a conspiracy that could cost the lives of thousands, millions of humans.

Walking a fine line between the human and bot worlds, Dalton must face his own humanity and mortality to bring a genius killer to justice.

A hardboiled, cyberpunk, noir detective story, set in the same world as "Anna In The Garden".

🥉3rd Place, The Ōkami Awards, Sci-Fi category - Sept '22🥉
🏵Featured by @BadassReads, 'The Dauntless' Reading list - Sept '23🏵

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