Alpha

Captured by an enigmatic android for an unknownand possibly fatalpurpose. Charon was the most ruthlessand brilliantcriminal of the twenty-first century, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. He is dead now, and General Thomas Wharington believes his team of experts has deleted all the electronic copies the megalomaniacal inventor created of himself. However, one major problem remains: Alpha, the only android survivor of Charons cybernetic empire. Outwardly indistinguishable from a human woman, Alpha has superhuman strength and speed, and perhaps even more deadly capabilities still unknown. Thomass superiors want her dismantled and studied, but to Thomas it feels like murder. He stalls for time, a move that could prove disastrous. Alpha escapes from an escape-proof compound, kidnaps Thomas, and takes him to one of Charons hidden installations. Charon might be dead, but Alpha continues to carry out her late masters orders, and she refuses to elaborate on what those orders entail. Her behavior is becoming more humanor so it seems. Is she developing emotions and a conscience, or is she just learning to counterfeit them as a means of carrying out her enigmatic orders? And do those orders include Thomass death sentence? The creator of a proscribed network of rogue Als and androids has been destroyed, his multiple copies deleted - except for one. Alpha: a female android who seems to possess a conscience - so much so that her execution is delayed. Now, on the run, and with her former captor as hostage, Alpha moves to activate a long dormant master-plan.