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Law. AI. Murder.
It's Year One After the Singularity.
Nobody Knows It.
Yet.

A prosecutor kills an opposing attorney and claims a virtual reality game drove him to it. Ex federal judge Martin Bavarius comes out of retirement to defend him. The defense sounds insane—until Martin’s own encounter with the artificial intelligence research system that runs America’s courts throws his entire worldview into question.

Something is very wrong with Q, the dominant AI in America’s legal research, gaming, and defense contracting industries—designed by Martin’s best friend, Felix West—with instant access to all the innocent and wicked knowledge, wisdom, and madness humanity has poured into the Internet.

To investigate, Martin hires attorney Selena MacKenzie, a brash AI theorist whose criminal recklessness may be their ruin—or their greatest asset in exposing Q’s true nature.

With bodies piling up and the clock bleeding down, they are only beginning to understand how dangerous Q may be.