Mind Burn

***Minority Report* meets *Ready Player One* as a new investigator hunts down a dangerous criminal capable of high-jacking and controlling cybernetic implants.** When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in **** twelve years, it’s understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant—a cybernetic implant—that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt and redact memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns it was his suspect’s PBA which allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her into a shooting rampage. Aided by a veteran investigator, a brilliant CFO, a nihilistic cybercriminal, and the best waifu madam in Kearny Mesa, Cowan must wade through a gauntlet of homicidal professional gamers, the Russian mafia, and the board of OneWorld to bring this ruthless puppetmaster to justice. All the while, the brand-new detective is concealing the fact that he’s the exact type of criminal OneWorld has hired him to a loose circuit—a human unbound by behavioral modification protocols. **Grab your copy today and experience this breakneck technothriller from *USA Today* bestselling author Rhett C. Bruno and T. E. Bakutis. It’s perfect for fans of Douglas E. Richards, Richard K. Morgan, and William Gibson.** **Full of action, mystery, and loads of cybernetic future-tech, *Mind Burn* explores the very question of what it means to be free.**