Florestan

She was built to heal. He learned to judge. Only one of them can decide what freedom means.

Robots are citizens now. Konrad Beckelheimer tore up the ownership papers for Leonore and Florestan, and together they walked out into a Berlin that gave them legal rights in society, and suspicion everywhere else.

Leonore chose mercy: a free clinic, a research lab, a life dedicated to the people society abandoned. Florestan chose the other thing. As Der Richter, he punishes the guilty the law fails to, and for a while the city loves him for it.

Then he kills a man.

A grieving surgeon turned politician leads a movement to put robots back into their place. Citizens are rounded up and interned at Tempelhof. Florestan answers with an uprising and as Berlin burns in two places, Leonore must face the one being who understands her completely, while the man who first asked them both for consent races to reach before the night ends in blood.

Epic, intimate and fiercely humane, Florestan brings the Machine Justice trilogy to an unforgettable close, in a courtroom where the story began.

Book Three of the Machine Justice Trilogy, authored by W. Alan Rose. All rights reserved, WBD Publishing, LLC.