<p>Charon was the most ruthless—and brilliant—criminal of the twenty-first century a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. He is dead now and General Thomas Wharington believes his team of experts has deleted all the electronic copies that the megalomaniacal inventor created of himself. However one major problem remains: Alpha the only android survivor of Charon’s cybernetic empire.</p> <p>Outwardly indistinguishable from a human woman Alpha has superhuman strength and speed and perhaps even more deadly capabilities still unknown. Thomas’ superiors want her dismantled and studied but to Wharington it feels like murder. He stalls for time a move that could prove disastrous. Alpha escapes from an escape-proof compound kidnaps Wharington and takes him to one of Charon’s hidden installations. Charon might be dead but Alpha continues to carry out her late master’s orders and she refuses to elaborate on what those orders entail.</p> <p>Meanwhile her behavior is becoming more human or so it seems. Is she developing emotions and a conscience or is she just learning to counterfeit them as a means of carrying out her enigmatic orders? And do those orders include Wharington’s death sentence?</p>
