SYMBIOSIS

One hundred years after Dr. Irwin C. Jacobs begins his epic quest to develop a truly cognitive neural array, "artificial sentients" live amongst us and are sold in retail stores. With the establishment of a new slavery comes a new abolitionist movement and a new underground railroad - run by people determined to protect these new slaves from the worst abuses of their human owners.

Book 2 of the Symbiosis Series. Sergeant Mike Richardson loves to fight - or so he thinks. He's at home in the Symbiont Safety Patrol. An underground railroad of sorts, the organization rescues sentient non-humans - his people - from abusive human owners. He loves the action; the "cause" is secondary until a routine rescue mission turns deadly.