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Wakeless: Joe Sault, book 1
Welcome to the near-future Metaverse...
Reality is a virtual, augmented, and holographic, and artificially intelligent robots are the hot, new consumer product.
Constable Joseph Sault is a contrary human being. But he might be the only one who’s accepted that. He’s constantly in trouble with his superiors and losing touch with his family all due to his compulsive need to solve cases…that are not his own…because, contrarily, he refuses to step up to Detective.
And, his new partner—a distractingly attractive hologram programmed to admire and to serve—is not doing his shaky marriage any favors.
Despite skewed priorities and lack of respect for protocol, in the end, he’s always emerged unscathed.
Until now.
Investigating a simple traffic accident lands him in the middle of a conspiracy with world-altering implications. Then, when the prime suspect turns out to be his wife’s new boss, his work and personal life collide, catastrophically.
Cornered and out of options, Sault must wager his career, family, and his own life in a desperate bid to outwit the man who has the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence at his command.
Reality is a virtual, augmented, and holographic, and artificially intelligent robots are the hot, new consumer product.
Constable Joseph Sault is a contrary human being. But he might be the only one who’s accepted that. He’s constantly in trouble with his superiors and losing touch with his family all due to his compulsive need to solve cases…that are not his own…because, contrarily, he refuses to step up to Detective.
And, his new partner—a distractingly attractive hologram programmed to admire and to serve—is not doing his shaky marriage any favors.
Despite skewed priorities and lack of respect for protocol, in the end, he’s always emerged unscathed.
Until now.
Investigating a simple traffic accident lands him in the middle of a conspiracy with world-altering implications. Then, when the prime suspect turns out to be his wife’s new boss, his work and personal life collide, catastrophically.
Cornered and out of options, Sault must wager his career, family, and his own life in a desperate bid to outwit the man who has the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence at his command.
275 pages, Hardcover
Published March 30, 2021
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About the author
William M. Dean
7 books6 followersI had my first book "published" in grade 4.
Mrs. Holdridge assigned the whole class to illustrate it and she bound it with staples. It was widely distributed...to our parents.
That's when I decided I wanted to become a writer.
That's how influential a single teacher can be.
After that, I wrote many stories that I hope never see the light of day.
I was drawn to the cleverness and technical twists in science fiction (Ben Bova, Aldus Huxley, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke--those were the icons of my early years), but always felt they lacked realism.
Then I read The Stand, by Stephen King, and it shook my world. This was fiction that felt real to the core.
And that's what I then aspired to write.
My prose got all high-fallutin for a long while, and then I read Michael Connelly's Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series' and learned that heroes could be harsh and language was best when simple and straight forward.
Then came indie publishing.
And, here I am.
If you like realistically drawn worlds and characters, try one of my fiction books.
Mrs. Holdridge assigned the whole class to illustrate it and she bound it with staples. It was widely distributed...to our parents.
That's when I decided I wanted to become a writer.
That's how influential a single teacher can be.
After that, I wrote many stories that I hope never see the light of day.
I was drawn to the cleverness and technical twists in science fiction (Ben Bova, Aldus Huxley, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke--those were the icons of my early years), but always felt they lacked realism.
Then I read The Stand, by Stephen King, and it shook my world. This was fiction that felt real to the core.
And that's what I then aspired to write.
My prose got all high-fallutin for a long while, and then I read Michael Connelly's Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer series' and learned that heroes could be harsh and language was best when simple and straight forward.
Then came indie publishing.
And, here I am.
If you like realistically drawn worlds and characters, try one of my fiction books.
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