This book confused me. In the early pages, I was pretty sure that it was AI generated. If there is any official way to determine if that is true, I don’t know what it is. Whatever system was used, no obvious typos jumped out at me. That in itself may be indicative of the hand of AI. Interestingly, Amazon lists the publisher as the date of publication.

This is a long shoot-em-up novel. There is a mysterious woman who is subjected to a mysterious beginning in the prologue of the book. When Gideon Ryker appears, he is fighting from his life even though he doesn’t remember who is or how he got into a French Foreign Legion retirement community. It turns out that there is a secret massive conspiracy organization (who Slater claims he based on the people behind Jeffrey Epstein) who wants desperately to silence Ryker – although it wasn’t clear to me why they want to do that. There isn’t much depth to the characters, but there is a lot of bloodshed. Slater seems to have a thorough knowledge of weaponry.

It is written well enough that I read it through. He does a decent job of explaining how Ryker gets from point A to point B, picking up money and clothing and weapons as he goes. And Ryker does seem to have a heart, taking pity on an old man who’s car he steals.

This sort of tale would appeal to readers of Lee Child stories, but Jack Reacher has a greater depth of character than Gideon Ryker.