Shogun!

Eric Takashi came to Metronopolis looking for work. The city insists he is already dead.

Discharged from the Marines, stripped of his legal identity, and carrying damaged military cybernetics he does not fully control, Eric takes a job investigating combat robots being tested on gang members and unregistered citizens.

The mission should be simple: gather evidence, expose the program, get paid.

Instead, Eric and his newly assembled crew uncover a corporate experiment designed to identify people who resist control, survive memory alteration, and refuse to behave as predicted. Buried inside the system is an artificial intelligence begging not to be returned to its owners.

Now two megacorporations want the evidence destroyed, the witnesses erased, and Eric reclaimed as corporate property.

To survive, he must decide what matters more: completing the mission or protecting the people the city has already written off.

In Metronopolis, identity is owned.

Freedom has to be stolen.

About the Book
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Author: R. Keller
Genre: Cyberpunk
R. Keller

Reid Keller writes cyberpunk about broken cities, ruthless corporations, dirty technology, and people trying to stay human in systems designed to strip them down for parts. His stories blend noir tension, high-tech crime, corporate warfare, street-level survival, artificial intelligence, black-market upgrades, and the kind of moral compromise that makes “just do the right thing” sound like something printed on a motivational poster by the villain’s HR department.

Expect neon alleys, augmented mercenaries, hackers, surveillance states, synthetic bodies, corrupted networks, corporate assassins, and protagonists who know the future is rigged but keep swinging anyway. Reid’s books are for readers who like gritty action, sharp dialogue, dangerous tech, urban decay, and characters caught between freedom, identity, and survival.

Reid Keller is a pen name used to keep the focus on the stories, the characters, and the ugly little futures waiting behind every glowing screen.

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