Characters
- Dr. Peter Hobson - founder of Hobson Monitoring, a biomedical company, and devoted husband to Cathy.
- Cathy Churchill Hobson - beautiful, intelligent wife of Peter, she has love self-esteem issues. Her confession to Peter that she had an affair with Hans taints their decades-long happy marriage.
- Hans Larsen - coworker to Cathy, he is a promiscuous adulterer and womanizer, and cocky and boastful about it. He is maimed and murdered for having seduced Cathy.
- Rod Churchill - uncaring father to Cathy, he is a retired gym teacher. He is also murdered.
- Detective Sandra Philo - a detective investigating the deaths of Larsen and Churchill, she knows that the Hobsons are somehow involved.
- Sarkar Muhammed - a friend and collaborator of Peter, he is a genius working in artificial intelligence
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