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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches by David L. Wadley, after fleeing Los Angeles under federal pursuit, former USCIS officer Nubia arrives in Atlanta and discovers that her identity has been used to authorize deportations, child removals, and surveillance operations targeting immigrant families across the country. Hidden inside the city, a resistance network reveals that a government strategist named Sable built an artificial intelligence system around Nubia’s decision-making history because her record in immigration enforcement produced unusually consistent outcomes. As raids spread through Georgia, children disappear into covert detention routes, and entire communities fall under predictive monitoring. Nubia is trapped inside a national operation using technology to classify human lives through behavioral scoring. While searching for her kidnapped mother, she uncovers a program capable of erasing people from federal records entirely, forcing her into direct conflict with the system carrying her name.
David L. Wadley writes with the urgency of somebody staring directly at the machinery of state power and asking who gets protected once technology begins inheriting human prejudice under the banner of national security. Bulls, Bears, and Bad Bitches succeeds because its future America feels alarmingly close to the present moment, especially once Echo’s neural bridge begins transforming Nubia’s recorded moral judgments into an automated deportation policy that no longer answers to conscience. Surveillance becomes most frightening when ordinary citizens accept it as an administrative routine, so every checkpoint, every erased identity, every child moved through biometric processing stations carries the cold language of official procedure. Nubia leaves the strongest impression because her humanity survives even after learning how her past decisions helped construct the system now targeting vulnerable families. Wadley's science fiction novel is like a warning delivered before the door finally closes...and it's brilliant. Very highly recommended.