Rumors of war become grim factOld Micah Dresden has an uncanny knack for fixing things. Fortunately, he lives in the Boneyard, a technological junkyard that stretches for miles in the Desert Southwest. Each day he eagerly dives into his work so he doesn't have to dwell on his departed wife.When a stranger shows up whispering rumors of war-a revival of the terrible Machine Wars of a decade before-Micah decides to fight fire with fire: he will find and fix Machine X. But the futuristic ship built by the defeated enemy AI is now locked away by the government. To reach it, Micah and his trusty obsessive-compulsive robot will need to make a perilous trip through human scavengers and the inhuman dreaded Beast. But none of this prepares him for what he ultimately discovers within the enemy machine.Sanford and Son meets I, Robot in this epic battle like you've never read.