Quote:My name is Getz Parker and I'm in the information business, which is not sexy.
But when an autistic child asked for help, I entered a world in which life and death are as hard to tell apart as magic and technology. My artificially intelligent companion spends more time on my mental health than on problem solving, so it may be no surprise we were stumped by puzzles leading from boardroom to bedroom, from séance to sacrifice, and from trepidation to transformation. We stumbled a bit on the way, I admit. Who would have dreamed rituals of sacrifice would enable a scheme to counterfeit minds and corrupt the very concept of truth? My problem was more basic, though. I wish someone could have answered a simple question: if nobody dies, can it be murder?