A hard-boiled private eye meets a high-tech mystery, in this short story by the author of Azureseas: Cantrell's War
A Writers of the Future Semifinalist
A multi-millionaire heiress committed suicide after a biotech company implants an experimental treatment device in her brain. Her grieving, lawyer husband sued the company for millions more.
Private investigator, ex-cop Albert Jimenez. Hired by the biotech company to dig up dirt on the "grieving" husband. He expected the usual: greed, a mistress, emotional manipulation, a marriage on the rocks.
Instead he found something far more sinister.
Questions of brain chemicals and free will.
Questions of what it means to be human.
Genre: Science Fiction
A Writers of the Future Semifinalist
A multi-millionaire heiress committed suicide after a biotech company implants an experimental treatment device in her brain. Her grieving, lawyer husband sued the company for millions more.
Private investigator, ex-cop Albert Jimenez. Hired by the biotech company to dig up dirt on the "grieving" husband. He expected the usual: greed, a mistress, emotional manipulation, a marriage on the rocks.
Instead he found something far more sinister.
Questions of brain chemicals and free will.
Questions of what it means to be human.
Genre: Science Fiction
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