Ten years after he died, Cari's grandfather is back.
Or at least, his memories are, stolen and repackaged by tech giant Merrywhile Industries to promote their latest project: digital immortality.
But when no one believes her, Cari's outrage drives her in search of proof and answers, drawing her into a virtual underworld of avatars and aliases, mercenary hackers and corporate spies, and where at the centre of it all is MUNKi, a cutting-edge project to create the world's most advanced toy robot – which may be neither as cute nor as innocent as it looks.
MUNKi is a twisted tale of revenge, ambition and loss. From the rural slumber of the South Wales valleys, to the frenzied beat of London's economic heartland, to the decaying grandeur of Venice, it is a philosophical exploration of memory, death and identity, and the ambiguous role that technology has come to play in all our lives.
This novel is part of the Merrywhile books. Set in the near-future, this is an ongoing series of sci-fi stories – novellas, short stories and full length novels – with a loose chronology, but which can be read in any order. They involve various characters and their dealings with Merrywhile Industries, a giant tech company with ambitions to take humanity to the next level – whether it wants to go there or not.
