Wired

In Civic-Ring, a high-tech paradise built for the elite, a model citizen of Raelsi Sector suddenly begins to levitate one morning after a night of voluntary disconnection from his neural conditioning headset, and by noon is a suspect in a multiple murder and child abduction, setting off a Zero-Degree Alert throughout the city. All that was missing in this chain of events was a mega-AI deliberately tampering with evidence and thwarting the smooth running of the investigation by the...
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In Civic-Ring, a high-tech paradise built for the elite, a model citizen of Raelsi Sector suddenly begins to levitate one morning after a night of voluntary disconnection from his neural conditioning headset, and by noon is a suspect in a multiple murder and child abduction, setting off a Zero-Degree Alert throughout the city. All that was missing in this chain of events was a mega-AI deliberately tampering with evidence and thwarting the smooth running of the investigation by the Cherub Police Deprogramming and Reprogramming (D&R) agents... and the unwanted attention of the demons of a higher plane of reality...

Wired is the book of a future that is insistently knocking at your door. You notice familiar gestures and actions in the characters. Are they yours? What about their thoughts or fears? You're no stranger to them either. Are you the one who's permanently connected to a strict monitoring system? Willful disconnection from it has serious consequences. Are you willing to take them on, to taste a forgotten freedom?

"Lucian Merișca and Cristian Hriscu, the authors of the tech-noir novel Wired, calculate for us the real balance of the technological world, to which we have decided to entrust our existence.A volume written with verve, analytical finesse and a sense of humour, which passes through the Aerial Toll Houses the sins of life in the network...
A formidable book, true literature, an exercise in insight in a world increasingly monopolized by Virtual Reality."

Mircea Platon, Editor-in-Chief "Convorbiri Literare" - "Literary Conversations"