Cybernetic Resonance

He expected a quiet career. He got a sentient partner and a robotic assassin instead. Alan Harrison used to spend his days digging through insurance spreadsheets at Adamant Insurance Group. That changed the day he received a plain brown box with no return address. Inside was Layla, a super-advanced Artificial Intelligence that thinks, learns, and talks back. Now, Alan is a Private Investigator, and Layla is the ultimate partner. Their latest case starts simply enough: find a batch of missing high-tech drones. But the investigation takes a dark turn at the Prism Cybernetics factory. An engineering supervisor has been found dead in his apartment, and all signs point to a "tragic accident" caused by the very home-service robot he was testing. The police are ready to close the file on a technical glitch, but Layla sees what they can't. Buried deep in the robot's core code is a "backdoor", a digital entry point that someone may have used to turn a household helper into a precision assassin. Alan and Layla are suddenly caught in a high-stakes game of corporate greed and hidden debts. Someone is using the machines that are supposed to protect us to commit the perfect crime. If Alan and Layla can't track down the human hand pulling the strings, they might be the next targets to "malfunction." Cybernetic Resonance is a fast-paced thriller where classic detective work meets the terrifying edge of tomorrow's technology.