Code & Gun

With Code & Gun, the Schultz Brothers take their place beside Richard K. Morgan as the next generation of hard-boiled, ultra-gritty science fiction.

498 pages of epic sci-fi action.

Dr. Kara Watanabe was just doing her job in the Denver ER: patching the latest car accident victim up with the help her of her Artificial Intelligence manager. When her weirdo patient comes out of sedative and says he doesn’t want any AI assisting, Kara assumes he’s one of those religious nuts from the mountains. Then she sees it - a strange, insect-like device sitting on the inside of his skull.

The next day it begins. Random strangers, federal agents and eventually criminal mercenaries, all trying to destroy what she’s recorded and even worse: put one of those devices inside her head. But to silence her, they’ll have to find her first…

Tracking and fighting the mercenaries in an epic running battle across the southwest is a small military intelligence unit, tasked to hunt down foreign national threats operating in North America. Elite special operators, they can’t understand why Kara’s their target’s target… until their own families come under attack, too. Finding Kara becomes not just a way to win, but their only way to survive.

Hiding in a luxury militia ranch, only Kara knows what is really chasing them all: a broken, vicious AI that will do anything to stay hidden. As gunfire clatters across the high Mesa plain, it will take both code and gun to stay alive.

With cyberpunk body horror, military-precise gunfights and a complex AI-infused dystopian world evoking Ian M. Banks and William Gibson, twin writing team the Schultz brothers are staking their claim on speculative fiction.