Synopsis: ● "John Allenbeck hates his job. Most days, his job hates him back. He's a Human Resources Investigator, and while other investigators are solving high-profile crimes for Synthetic Corporation, he deals with malfunctioning automata. But when a murder case falls into his lap, Beck sees a rare opportunity to prove himself to his boss and former colleague Katherine Hegra. Yet as Beck digs deeper into the case and into the inner workings of SynthCorp, he finds himself confronting secrets about the company and his own past, he has to deal with forgotten memories, synthetic foods, interstellar spacecraft, radio transmissions from Venus, all secrets that might affect not only his career, but the fate of humanity itself." ― paraphrased from this book's product page on Amazon.com as of 2025-04-12