Dead Man's Clutch

By: Shane Larson

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In a Detroit where chrome enhancement means power, ex-military investigator Cole Kingsley stays stubbornly human. Ever since his brother died facing chrome-enhanced insurgents overseas, he's sworn off the synthetic evolution that's transforming the city one citizen at a time.

But when modified muscle cars start crashing with their drivers mysteriously fused to their vehicles, Cole's quest for answers leads him to underground street races where drivers push chrome integration to deadly limits. At the center of it all is Marlena Sterling, a club owner whose organic chrome interfaces hint at a different kind of enhancement—one that remembers what the fusion of human and machine was supposed to be.

Together, they uncover a conspiracy reaching from illegal street racing circuits to the highest levels of corporate power. Viktor Raines isn't just selling chrome enhancement; he's engineering humanity's next evolution, turning enhanced citizens into nodes of a networked consciousness that threatens to consume everything human about the city.

With time running out and enhanced security forces closing in, Cole must make an impossible choice: remain pure human in a world turning chrome, or embrace experimental enhancement to fight artificial evolution with organic truth. The fate of human consciousness hangs on his decision.

DEAD MAN'S CLUTCH is a cyberpunk noir thriller that fuses classic muscle car culture with bleeding-edge technology, asking what it means to remain human in a world where evolution comes with a chrome price tag.