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When Lonnie Saint Louis, founder of NewStarts, develops an artificial life form based on quantum computing, he envisions Tony piloting countless automobiles, trucks, planes, and trains. To better ensure his device operates at maximum efficiency, Lonnie programs Tony with but one instruction: To protect humanity. To help promote NewStarts and to lobby Congress to adopt laws pertaining to self-driving transportation, Lonnie brings aboard as partner his old buddy Harry Mathers, a...
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When Lonnie Saint Louis, founder of NewStarts, develops an artificial life form based on quantum computing, he envisions Tony piloting countless automobiles, trucks, planes, and trains. To better ensure his device operates at maximum efficiency, Lonnie programs Tony with but one instruction: To protect humanity. To help promote NewStarts and to lobby Congress to adopt laws pertaining to self-driving transportation, Lonnie brings aboard as partner his old buddy Harry Mathers, a high-powered attorney working in the Loop.As he wanders a broken and forgotten world the Monk has long ago put aside the name he once must have carried. After growing up on the south side of Chicago, the Monk is forced to flee whenever his numerous and onerous crimes threaten to entangle him in the arms of the law. Now, he has only one driving need: To murder the world and everything in it. And so he is coming for an old friend he once met in a forbidding cemetery back home. And for Tony.Lenore Johnson meets Tony and Harry when the editor of her high school newspaper gives her an assignment to interview the employees of a new company just opened in Lenore's neighborhood. After befriending Tony and accepting a job offer from Harry, Lenore finds herself gradually drawn into the complexities surrounding NewStarts and its reclusive owners.Josie Franks is a car salesman in an era when nobody buys cars any longer. With the advent of NewStarts, it has become far easier and much cheaper to call up a Tony car rather than to own a private vehicle. When an old associate visits the dealership to actually make a purchase, Josie and Harry renew their friendship and before long, Harry tenders Josie an offer of employment at NewStarts at a starting salary which boggles the imagination.Lemmy is a thief and a drug addict eking out a living on the south side of Chicago by selling drugs on the street corner and burglarizing car dealerships after disabling their high-priced alarm systems. When one of his regular customers makes him a job offer at a major corporation, Lemmy accepts, though with deep reservations. Something doesn't smell quite right, but the whiff of big money tempts him nevertheless.As the future rushes toward them all with ever-increasing fury, will these people realize the danger they risk by associating with NewStarts and with Tony? Or will they succumb to the lure of easy living?