An excellent question. Who are they? Who created them? What do they do? Are they good? Evil?

A police helicopter hovers over Hackney. Snipers surround the siege house. Fascinated, Nelson edges forward to watch the advance of the negotiator: a robot, uncannily tall and serene, designed to empathise with the despair that has turned a bitter executive into a cornered gunman. But the robot is too late; an explosion engulfs the house. As Nelson watches the burning machine burst onto his street, he realises that the world has shifted beneath his feet; a strange and unexpected future has arrived on his doorstep.

Welcome to the adventures of young father Nelson Millar and his friend and manic poet Raymond Chase in the imminent technologies of tomorrow. Nelson unwillingly works on a project that threatens the nature of democracy, the simulation of a town and its citizens to create the ultimate focus group. Meanwhile, Raymond is hired to assist the mysterious Red Men, digital copies of the rich and powerful whose vile appetites and hatred for real life soon lead to murder.

A literary thriller for an out-of-control age, The Red Men captures the shocking, baffling quality of life in our new century, a struggle between the narrow corporate vision of humanity and our true potential, a battle in which even ordinary men like Nelson and disenchanted souls like Raymond must take sides to survive.


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