Paperback, 328 pages
Published June 14, 2010 by Dog Ear Publishing, LLC.
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Sentient robots, known as dolls, star in this thriller by Matthew Gold, the first volume in a series known as The Academy. The Wonders at Your Feet transports the reader to a not-too-distant world of private police forces, celebrity gangsters, fantasies and the promise that technology can solve any problem. Although the public views dolls as convenient objects, they hold a each comes from a human mind, bought and sold in a hidden black market, both with consent and otherwise. Rebecca, one such doll, performs highly dangerous tasks for the shadowy organization that employs her.
This imaginative tale follows Rebecca - uploaded into a state-of-the-art robotic body - as she trains for her new life as a secret agent by manipulating the media and the public, assassinating and then incriminating child rapists and murderers who thought they got away with their crimes. A chance meeting with FBI agent Dexter entangles …
Sentient robots, known as dolls, star in this thriller by Matthew Gold, the first volume in a series known as The Academy. The Wonders at Your Feet transports the reader to a not-too-distant world of private police forces, celebrity gangsters, fantasies and the promise that technology can solve any problem. Although the public views dolls as convenient objects, they hold a each comes from a human mind, bought and sold in a hidden black market, both with consent and otherwise. Rebecca, one such doll, performs highly dangerous tasks for the shadowy organization that employs her.
This imaginative tale follows Rebecca - uploaded into a state-of-the-art robotic body - as she trains for her new life as a secret agent by manipulating the media and the public, assassinating and then incriminating child rapists and murderers who thought they got away with their crimes. A chance meeting with FBI agent Dexter entangles him in her complex web of lies, deception and murder. What he learns during his search for a missing person who ran away to the Academy - the same secret training center that forged Rebecca - could reveal the truth of the dolls and forever change civilization. Only Rebecca and her organization can protect the public from the dangerous truth.