The Citizens

To save her, he had to confess.

A year after the Uckermark rescue, the secret Konrad Beckelheimer shares with his two robots has grown, Robots across Berlin are joining the Bund, righting wrongs the law ignores, always with consent and never with killing. The press quickly embraces and celebrates this turn of events and starts referring to the movement as the Good Machines. Most of the public can't decide whether to cheer or panic.

Then a stranger's robot malfunctions in a nightclub, a senator seizes the moment, and a bill to insert a kill switch into ever robot in Germany quickly races through parliament. Stolen notes lead the police to Konrad's door, and Leonore is seized with a Court Order to be wiped.

Konrad is left but with one move, and it will cost him his freedom and his license to practice law. He walks into the prosecutor's office in Moabit and confesses, turning Leonore from mere evidence into a witness, and her fate into a question for Germany's highest Court.

Caught between the three women he loves, an increasingly capable and frustrated robot who is losing faith in society's rules, and a country with a unique perspective deciding what a person truly is, Konrad must win a case in which the key witness has a face made of light.

The Citizens is a powerful, suspenseful legal thriller about freedom, love and the right to say no.

The Citizens is Book Two of the Machine Justice Trilogy, by author W. Alan Rose. All rights are held and reserved by WBD Publishing, LLC.