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BURN-IN
An FBI agent teams up with the first police robot to hunt a shadowy terrorist in this gripping technothriller - and fact-based tour of tomorrow - from the bestselling authors of Ghost Fleet.
"The following is a work of fiction. However, all the places, technologies, incidents, and trends in it are drawn from the real world."--from the authors
Imagine a world where cars drive themselves, virtual reality glasses send up-to-the-minute information, and police are able to use robotics for surveillance and enforcement. As forecasted by futuristic thrillers such as Minority Report and Robocop, the artificial intelligence era is happening right now. In their new "non-fiction thriller," global defense experts P. W. Singer and August Cole amp up the innovations to the next level to probe the startling ramifications of our everyday digital world.
FBI Agent Lara Keegan is partnered with the first humanistic police robot named TAMS. Her responsibility is to run TAMS through a "burn-in," a continuous test of the robot's capabilities to check for defects or failure before it goes into the field. Since the robot is conditioned to learn and improve with each test, Keegan's career rides on on TAMS's success. If the robot fails, so does she. Their partnership is pushed to the limit when they are tasked with hunting down a brilliant rogue scientist who is using top-secret technology to terrorize Washington DC.
In their first collaboration, Ghost Fleet, P. W. Singer and August Cole applied their expertise in future warfare and real current events to create an unsettling vision of World War III. Dubbed a "non-fiction thriller" for its footnoted plot lines, Ghost Fleet became a Washington Post bestseller, sold in 9 territories, and widely reviewed in the international press. In a strange twist, it was even cited as a factual source by a political candidate in a presidential election.
P. W. Singer was described in the Wall Street Journal as "the premier futurist in the national-security environment" and is considered one of the world's leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare. He is the New York Times bestselling author of 7 books, including, most recently, LikeWar, which sold in 6 territories, was named an Amazon Best Book of 2018, and received major international press. He has consulted for the US Military and FBI, as well as entertainment programs for Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, Universal, HBO, and the video game series Call of Duty.
August Cole is a writer and analyst specializing in national security issues and a former defense industry reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
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Published 2020-05-26 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |