This is a really great example of smart science fiction, particularly of speculative science fiction where the writer takes what is happening in the news and asks where it will lead in the near future. It pays silent homage to Isaac Asimov's robot novels with the unwilling teaming of detective John Kennex with Dorian, an advanced model android who is probably the detective's superior in almost every way. Kennex was badly injured in a firefight which left him feeling like he and the combat model androids had failed his human friends. Now he resents the android partners, which he illustrates in one moment of black humor. Then his boss, Maldanado, teams him up with an advanced model android designed to think, feel, and act like a human on dangerous space missions. The interaction of these begrudging partners with the prejudices of their colleagues is both entertaining and enlightening.
Review of Almost Human
