He hates AI. He hunts it for a living. Then, he becomes one.

Hiro, an orphaned outcast, lives by one truth: artificial intelligence is the enemy. But after a brutal cyber-gang attack, he’s transformed into the very thing he’s spent his life trying to destroy. Feeling lost and helpless, he finds himself trapped inside a machine he cannot understand.

CerebroNet—the super-intelligent AI ruling over New London’s neon-glittering spires and shadowy alleys—wants to use him. It claims to hold the key to saving humanity from a rival AI that harvests human brains for its computing power. But how can Hiro trust the entity that murdered his family?

Time is running out. Driven by vengeance and struggling with his fractured identity and a desperate need for belonging, Hiro must overcome his fears and unravel a web of lies before CerebroNet seizes his mind and rewrites humanity’s fate. But how can he fight an unhinged machine that knows his every move—an enemy that is him?

Will he rise as humanity’s saviour or trigger its ultimate downfall?