num_pages: 303
description: Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her own submarine. A notorious anti-patent scientist who has styled herself as a Robin Hood heroine fighting to bring cheap drugs to the poor Jacks latest drug is leaving a trail of lethal overdoses across what used to be North Americaa drug that compels people to become addicted to their work.On Jacks trail are an unlikely pair: an emotionally shut-down military agent and his partner Paladin a young military robot who fall in love against all expectations. Autonomous alternates between the activities of Jack and her co-conspirators and Elias and Paladin as they all race to stop a bizarre drug epidemic that is tearing apart lives causing trains to crash and flooding New York City.
language: English
title: Autonomous
publisher: Tor Books