{"product_id":"the-case-of-the-invisible-face","title":"The Case of the Invisible Face","description":"\u003cb\u003eMy name is Hood, of R. Hood \u0026amp; Associates. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat's what it says on the business cards. The \"R\" stands for Robin. Yeah, I know. I get it all the time. I've got four associates. Three of them are human. The fourth one isn't. That doesn't mean I value her any less than my human associates. And yes, she's female. Well, not technically. Technically, she's a machine, although you certainly wouldn't know it to look at her. Her name is Marian and she's an Io (pronounced \"Eye-oh\"), which is short for Inorganic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn Io is a humanoid, self-aware AI, so advanced that they have limited citizenship rights. They're supposed to be impossible to hack. Except someone managed to hack an AI-controlled facial recognition system and put Mick Moskowitz' face on a jewelry store robber and now Mick's been arrested, which doesn't sit well with his boss, Giovanni \"Johnny G.\" Gennero, head of the Gennero crime family and my newest client. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSomeone's also hacked the Color-Morph fashion corporation, another new client, turning their holographic street ad campaign into a grotesque nightmare. And my friend Allyn Adale, queen of the city's nightlife and granddaughter of the inventor of the self-aware AI, thinks it just might be someone she knew nearly 50 years ago, a young hacker known only as The Worm, whose heart she broke and who has spent almost fifty years plotting his revenge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis one's not going to be easy.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378967187813,"sku":"9798584897611","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_0b469e5e-1152-43ba-bb55-2ca5f7d28914.jpg?v=1791142705","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/the-case-of-the-invisible-face","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}