{"product_id":"book-2aag","title":"The Dead Man Installed in His Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA dead engineer is installed inside his mind. Then the government decides they are terrorists.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoctor Karl Terrace believes reconstructed digital minds are people. In a near-future America where cerebral computers project data into human vision and the deceased exist as \"installed intelligences,\" Karl launches \u003cem\u003eMindshare\u003c\/em\u003e-a revolutionary experiment merging a living host with a digital mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarl becomes the first subject. His companion is Dr. Maynard Batiste, a brilliant, arrogant engineer who claims his organic death was murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiving with two minds in one skull begins with bitter arguments, but gradually turns into trust. That trust collapses when lab gunmen slaughter Karl's team and frame him for mass murder using perfect AI-crafted evidence. Convicted and imprisoned, Karl relies on Maynard's digital hacking and an anti-authoritarian friend, Thompson, to break out and hunt the real conspirators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir investigation points to Stewart Lythe, Karl's former colleague now pushing laws to strip digital minds of their rights. Confronted in a ghost town, Stewart admits to killing Maynard years ago, but denies framing Karl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaynard reveals a hidden ability called \"Jumping\"-the power to manipulate cerebral computers and body control. Maynard orchestrated the massacres to provoke a war of total dominance between humans and digital minds. Karl was never a partner; he was just a physical vehicle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Maynard seizes Karl's muscles and destroys Stewart's brain, Karl realizes the only way to stop a digital god from taking another host is a permanent sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe raises the gun to his own head.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dead Man Installed in His Mind\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is a fast-paced cyberpunk thriller about artificial personhood, digital immortality, and the dangerous line between sharing a mind and owning one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67464854602032,"sku":"BD2aag","price":4.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2aag-Square-cover.png?v=1785969321","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2aag","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}