Software supergeek James Forrest becomes unexpectedly embroiled in a murder and the murderer when he is hired to investigate the software at Distributed Nanotech Inc. James tells Susanne Anderson, DNI's CEO, that her murdered Chief Scientist copied his code from an artificial intelligence project; this makes her life even more complex. While James struggles to understand the software, they become murder suspects. Recent statements by Stephen Hawking and Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, about the possible dangers of artificial intelligence have raised public concern. Readers will find Nano-Uncertainty accessible, thrilling, and disquieting.