Rhys Constance’s new cyberpunk novel, Ethical Tyranny, was released today. The 3rd book in his Ashton Frey series, the story sees protagonist Frey given an offer he can’t refuse.

Synopsis –

The most efficient way to trap a man is to give him nothing left to want.

They made Ashton Frey an offer. It was reasonable. It was generous. It was impossible to refuse, which was how he knew he was in real trouble. Ashton has survived fire, betrayal, and a doomsday weapon that lives in his skull and won’t stop workshopping insults about his internal organs. He knows what it looks like when someone wants him dead. He has no idea what to do about someone who wants to save him.

The domes are dying. The corpo-nations are eating each other. Strangers wait in the freezing dark outside his door, certain of things about him that aren’t true. And behind it all, something vast, patient, and quietly certain has spent a very long time arranging the furniture toward a future that runs beautifully and costs only everything. The bill arrives later.

Ethical Tyranny is a savage, funny, black-hearted reckoning with the oldest lie ever told: that if someone can build a perfect world, they should.

Burn it down with the final book of the series on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and soon on Audible, narrated by Hector Carrillo. However you choose to experience it, the offer is still on the table. That’s the problem.

Ethical Tyranny is the third and final book in Constance’s absurdist satire cyberpunk series, which started with Privatized Freedom, continued with Regulated Truth, and now concludes. The series is set on a ruined Earth, with the population living in sealed dome cities, their only barrier to the permanent impact-winter outside. The populace, ruled by corporations, use technology through neural links, but the technology also has a mind of its own. The protagonist, detective Aston Frey, has a failed neural implant, which can make life difficult, although it has its advantages when it comes to working covertly.

If you haven’t read the previous books in the series, fear not, for Rhys Constance is also releasing The Complete Ashton Frey omnibus edition on Kindle, bringing all 3 books together in 1.

Ethical Tyranny is available now in E-Book, Paperback, and Hardcover formats, with an Audiobook also on the way.

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