Ready Player Once meets Altered Carbon with heavy cyberpunk elements.
In a city ruled by surveillance, death is no longer the end. It is just another product.
Phoenix, 2101. Detective Nate Wartman is assigned a high-stakes case: solve a string of brutal corporate murders at Arc Systems, the world’s most powerful virtual reality conglomerate.
But the bodies are just the beginning.
Alongside his hacker partner, Jane, Nate uncovers a conspiracy that shatters the boundaries of human existence—evidence that human consciousness can be copied, controlled, and permanently erased.
As a global investigation spirals out of control, whistleblowers vanish and digital ghosts begin to speak. Nate realizes that every lead he has followed was manipulated by unseen forces, and his own reality is starting to feel like a staged memory.
To expose the truth, Nate must decide what he is willing to sacrifice: his badge, his identity, or his own mind.
"Digital enhancements rule the world in this chilling distant-future SF. Ra successfully creates a future world that offers cutting-edge technology but, at the same time, blurs the line between reality and AI. A mind-bending, inventive spin… gripping and invitingly unpredictable. Great for fans of Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon and William Gibson’s Neuromancer."
- BookLife
