Miki is not the brightest bot, but it is cheerful, kind and loyal. Miki is a delightful character who reminded me a lot of Dug Dog in the movie Up. In exchange, MB promises Miki to protect Don Abede and the others. Miki loves its humans, especially the party leader Don Abede, and MB finds itself sort of horrified by Miki but also needing its help (and secrecy) to get to Milu. In order to get to Milu, MB stows away on a ship that is taking a small research party, their augmented security guards (human/bot hybrids) and a little “petbot” named Miki to Milu to do an assessment. Its disdain for human security systems is pretty funny, and since it’s usually not too hard to access cameras, drones, codes, etc., MB multitasks, watching its favorite shows at the same time. MB generally has little trouble with operations like this because ever since it figured out how to detach itself from the governing module that limited its actions and intelligence (thus making itself “rogue”), it has perfected the art of hacking the other shitty security systems it encounters. Since Milu is far off and abandoned, MB will have to be extra stealthy in order to find a way on to the site, where it expects to find incriminating evidence of Gra圜ris’ deeds. In Rogue Protocol, Murderbot hitches a ride to a distant planet called Milu, where Gra圜ris was running a fake operation meant to look like terraforming (legal) but was actually a front for an illegal mining operation. The matter gets complicated in these two novels, as MB has decided that investigating Gra圜ris, an evil corporation that nearly killed Mensah and her crew, is now a priority.

MB’s memory was wiped by the company that owned it, but armed with incredible tech, hacking ability and weapons, MB has decided to investigate on its own. Mensah in order to try to figure out why it murdered a bunch of humans on a previous job. Murderbot, a rogue SecUnit who has been purchased and freed by one of its clients, is still at large, having snuck away from client/guardian Dr.

These are the third and fourth books in The Murderbot Diaries and, like the first two, they are full of intrigue, action and snarky humor.

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