The Automatic Detective

Author: A. Lee Martinez

Mack is some kind of detective. Heâ€™s a robot that was built to take over the world, but he decided that wasnâ€™t his thing. So he drives a cab in Empire City. Itâ€™s only when his neighbors go missing that he decides to get involved in their lives. It turns out that one of the kidnapped people has the key to something that could spell the end of the Earth. Mack is made to storm any fortress, but itâ€™s not that easy, because others start playing with his internal mechanisms to turn him back into that world-dominating machine. He meets a beautiful, potential love interest that helps Mack in his quest to stay on his path for a better life and to find and save the neighbors. Why It Made the List The book is a classic in the genre, a well-received novel by a fan-favorite author. Itâ€™s worth the time to find it and read it. It has the old-fashioned wise-cracking private eye in the same vein as Spade and Marlowe, which brings a smile to the reader while reading a fast-paced book. Read It If You Like robots, thrillers, private eye novels

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