The Robot Murders

By Pete Harrison

In a world where robots had become commonplace and murder almost nonexistent, someone had been leaving ‘dead’ robots about. Detective Calloway tries to unravel the reason why and find out if there is any connection with the rare murders he is investigating.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pete Harrison
• Release date: Apr 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370667420

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The Robot Murders

By

P.W.Harrison

First Edition: April 2018

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This title is a work of FICTION. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental.

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

( The laws of Robotics, Issac Asimov)

But what if the Robot thought it was human?

Max didn't know he was an assassin, Max didn't know he wasn't human. In fact max didn't know much at all. Fact is Max didn't really care. He woke with the mother of all hangovers swung his feet over the side of the bed, planted them on the floor and his head in his hands. He reached for a spray in his bedside cabinet and pumped two shots into his mouth. Slowly the hangover started to lift and within five minutes it had completely gone.

He stood up and padded around his luxury apartment, made himself a cup of coffee at the marble top breakfast bar and sat himself in one of the leather settees. In reality Max had raised himself from a standard iron framed bed, made coffee at a wooden breakfast bar and sat himself in