The Dark Heart of Empire

What if you could see anywhere, hear any secret, and go almost any place undetected? How would you use your new power? Would you succeed in creating an earthly paradise, or would your choices give birth to a living nightmare?

This is the ancient mystery of the Ring from Plato’s Republic. But it is also the key to understanding what power already lies on the near horizon, when Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become the size of insects.

This visionary novel of robotic assassins and spies plunges deep into hidden dungeons and soars into fortress palaces to search out the ancient question of power and its wise use, and whether we – as individuals or all together - are on the road to a new era of justice and peace, or merely on the well-worn path to the graveyard of empires.