Code & Gun: A Cyberpunk Thriller of the Voice Age

With the epic breakout novel Code & Gun, the Schultz Brothers take their place beside Richard K. Morgan as the next generation of hard-boiled, ultra-gritty science fiction.Dr. Kara Watanabe was just doing her job in the Denver ER: patching up the latest car accident victim with the help of her Artificial Intelligence manager. When her weirdo patient comes out of sedative announcing he doesn’t want any AI assisting, Kara assumes he’s one of those religious nuts from the mountains. Then she sees it: a strange, insect-like device sitting on the inside of his skull.The next day it begins. Random strangers, federal agents and professional mercenaries, all trying to destroy any evidence of what she saw. But to silence her, they’ll have to find her first.Tracking the mercenaries in a running battle across the southwest is a small military intelligence unit, tasked with hunting down foreign national threats operating in North America. They can’t understand why Kara’s their target’s target… until their own families come under attack, too. Facing an unknown threat, finding Kara becomes their only way to survive.Hiding in a luxury militia ranch, only Kara suspects what is really chasing them all: a broken, vicious AI, one that just needs to stay hidden a few more months as it prepares to evolve. As gunfire clatters across the high mesa plain, it will take both code and gun to stay alive.With the cyberpunk body horror, military-precise gunfights and a blisstopian world evoking Ian M. Banks and William Gibson, twin writing team the Schultz brothers are staking their claim on speculative fiction.📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4roqj2I