In Dale Brown’s Puppet Master, intelligent machines take center stage as America fights the Russian mafia in Eastern Europe

Louis Massina is revolutionizing the field of robotics. His technological wonders can handle locating catastrophe survivors, preventing nuclear meltdowns, and replacing lacking limbs. After one of Massina’s creations makes a miraculous save, an FBI agent recruits him to go after criminals running a massive financial scam-and not really coincidentally, suspected of eliminating the agent’s brother. Massina agrees to deploy a surveillance “bot” that uses artificial intelligence to check out its target. But when he’s thrust right into a dangerous conspiracy, the billionaire inventor chooses to take matters into his personal hands, unleashing the best cyber-weapons in the globe and getting the Puppet Get good at.