I am so delighted today to provide a review for you by the C.E. at my blog stop for The Invisible Mind by M. T. Bass on Sage’s Blog Tours.
Title: The Invisible Mind: Murder by Munchausen #3 Future Crime Mysteries: A Sci-Fi Police Procedural Techno-Thriller
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- Print Length: 212 pages
- Publisher: Electron Alley Corporation
- Publication Date: August 25, 2018
- Language: English
- ASIN:B07DFF75L3
- ISBN-10: 194626606X
- ISBN-13: 978-1946266064
A police procedural sci-fi thriller ripped from future headlines!
Now unleashed, the “Baron” is resurrecting history’s notorious serial killers, giving them a second life in the bodies of hacked and reprogrammed Personal Assistant Androids, then turning them loose to terrorize the city. While detectives Jake and Maddie of the police department’s Artificial Crimes Unit scramble to stop the carnage with the Baron’s arrest, the cyberpunk head of the Counter IT Section, Q, struggles to de-encrypt his mad scheme to infect world data centers with a virus that represents a collective cyber unconsciousness of evil.
Artificial intelligence plus automation spells an ultimate decline in our population. Recreation of mass murders as a form of satisfaction for a depraved killer is the third in this series. The killer is right in front of the police and investigative services in the first two books and invisible in the third.M.T. Bass melds the characters into a macabre tale of murder and mayhem confounded with artificial intelligence. Investigation is confounded by computer encoding hidden on the dark web. The result is a world where a character called “The Baron” recreates mass murders starting with Jack the Ripper and recreating many of the horrendous serial killings of the twentieth century.
Our hero Jake has been relegated to the investigation of synthoid-crimes or crimes by non-human synthetic beings. They are programmed to protect humanity but the Baron replaces that programming with a set of data commands that turns them into highly efficient killing machines. Similar to some of the results in “The Manchurian Candidate” the synthoid then becomes a highly programmed killing machine. Despite the best efforts of society to put controls on these machines, the Baron has spent many hours altering their programs. He then gets to be in a front row seat as the machine recreates some of the mass murders from human history.
Jake and Maddie have an on and off again relationship. The Baron has attacked both of them during the course of the three books. Begin with Book 1, Murder by Munchausen and Book 2 The Darknet, so that the reader will have the best understanding of the characters and their relationship. Jake and Maddie are co-protagonists for the same police department of Cleveland, Ohio. They are also lovers who have worked together to bring the Baron to justice at the near expense of each of their lives.
Paramount in the reading is the prophetic treatise of the novels. Will mankind become less essential as society continues to expand the use of artificial intelligence and machine production? Will some very misguided very rich people design the crimes illustrated in this book? Ultimately will the world degrade to the point of selectively eliminating human beings in favor of much more efficient and inexpensive synthoids?
The author skillfully ends the third book in this series leaving more questions than answers! Will Maddie and Jake stay together? Was the Baron grooming his replacement in the young street urchin named Amy? Will the police continue to bungle along trying to solve crimes perpetrated by sick minded computer programmers and hackers?
Hopefully, these questions will be answered in the fourth book in the series. In the interim, if you have not availed yourself of M.T. Bass’s writings I highly recommend them. They are skillfully crafted to keep you entertained and guessing. Happy reading!
We received these ebook downloads from the author through Sage’s Blog Tours and appreciated the opportunity to read and review. C.E. Williams
Rosepoint Publishing: Four point Five of Five Stars
M.T. Bass is a scribbler of fiction who holds fast to the notion that while victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality. He lives, writes, flies and makes music in Mudcat Falls, USA.
(From Goodreads author page) Every author was first a reader. My aim is to pay forward at least some small portion of the fun I’ve had and the discoveries I’ve made from reading great books, holding fast to the notion that while victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.To join my mailing list and keep in touch (and get a free download), click here.
Just so you know what you might be getting into, my favorite five novels are:
1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
3. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
4. Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAs a reader, I launch campaigns for myself. I’m currently coming to the end of reading biographies of every U.S. President in chronological order. Next up, I think, will be a meandering read through of the history of aviation from the Wright Brothers to the present. Of course, if something shiny comes along — like a new release by Carl Hiaasen or Erik Larson — I might get distracted for a bit.
As much as I love real, physical “meatspace” books with real paper pages (“Real tomato ketchup, Eddie?”), I have to confess that eBook publishing has not only enabled my story-telling disorder, it has amped my reading back up without breaking my back, since I can carry my entire library around in my iPad Mini.
Thank you for visiting my stop on the book tour and please check out the other blog tour stops!
Tour Participants:
July 25th Celtic Lady’s Reviews ~ AUTHOR INTERVIEW
July 26th Mythical Books ~ BOOK SPOTLIGHT
July 27th JBronder Book Reviews ~ REVIEW
July 29th Rosepoint Publishing ~ REVIEW
July 31st Bound 2 Escape ~ BOOK SPOTLIGHTThanks to Sage’s Blog Tours for the opportunity to read and review this sci-fi techno-thriller!
©2018 V Williams
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Rosepoint Publishing 
Reblogged this on Owl Works – The Scribblings of M.T. Bass.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Well, you definitely can’t go wrong with sci-fi meets police procedurals with moral and technological quandaries!! This sounds like a very exciting series! Although “being left with more questions than answers” scares me a bit! 😉
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Absolutely, and sounded to me like a set up for the 4th in the series.
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What a premise! It took me a bit to wrap my head around it. Very in-depth review!
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Thank you–the C.E. read and wrote it. It was a complicated and multi-layered plot.
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Hi Virginia —
Thanks for being a part of my blog tour for The Invisible MInd and thanks much for taking the time to read all three installments for your review. I had a lot of fun writing the Munchausen series, especially because at the time, the news was filled with all kinds of apocalyptic warnings that Artificial Intelligence will be the doom of mankind from the likes of Elon Musk (…”potentially more dangerous than nukes.”) and Stephen Hawkings (“…[could] spell the end of the human race.”), which fueled the thematic undertow of the story. We just might have more to worry about than zombies.
Best of luck with bringing your grandfather’s tales to readers. He sounds like he had an amazingly adventurous life.
Mudcat aka M.T. Bass
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You are so welcome! Both the C.E. and I enjoyed participating in the blog tour and wish you much luck with a successful tour.
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