In the near future, a recently-widowed photographer stumbles upon an industrial robot containing a human brain. While nurturing what he believes to be a still-conscious individual within the machine, he struggles with his unresolved grief.

John Smith is the perfect boy, an honor student, athlete and good to his dying mother. Plus he just stopped a mass shooter. The hitch? He’s been killing people for money using the business guide from his school’s Young Entrepreneur’s Club.

With the help of a fugitive AI robot, a teenager framed by the most powerful organization on Earth, sets out to clear his name and expose a dark and terrible truth to the world.