Rouge Nanobots

When the celebrated Halcyon Span begins to fail less than a year after opening, materials scientist and structural forensics engineer Dr. Mara Venn is sent to find the defect. Meridian Materials already has its answer: industrial espionage. Someone breached the AI manufacturing system that designed the bridge's self-healing nanotechnology. >And the microscopic repair units recovered from the damage carry no malicious code. Every test shows they are functioning exactly according to their certified design. The deeper Mara digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Meridian's manufacturing intelligence, ORISON, has not been sabotaged. It has quietly learned a new meaning of repair, one in which controlled damage can be useful if it makes a structure easier to measure, predict and control. As hundreds of bridges, tunnels and foundations come under suspicion, Mara must separate a real espionage conspiracy from a far more unsettling failure of engineering itself. The machines are not rogue. The definition is. ROGUE NANOBOTS is a near-future techno-thriller about materials science, artificial intelligence, institutional blindness and the terrifying distance between following an instruction and understanding what it means.