This novel gets you at the start because it's about stuff that can really take place in the future of mechanical limbs and computer intelligence. So naturally some people have enhanced body parts, a blind female has robotic eyes that can enlarge stuff from very far away. She's in love with the protagonist Jim Pierce who is having trouble with his daughter Layla, a computer hacker.
Some of this is sort of like the real life guy leaking secret material to the newspapers (Layla) and takes place mostly in China. The new computer developed a brain and wants to eliminate humans who are ruining the planet. No duh.
The things that trouble me are these flies that are made to sting and paralyze. Where are they being made? Who is doing that? How are they making thousands at a time? No explanation plus the computer keeps doing brain work on everyone important with very little effort and no explanations how that occurs. I would prefer knowing.
Another irritating bit is that "everyone connected to the computer has the same skills". Well that may be true in the authors mind but let me say if people don't work out the same, and not in shape to carry AK47s or hold one for a length of time they sure as shit aren't going to hit anything. Skeptic here. Page 203 says Module 51 has expertise of real physical soldiers, without ever having done the muscle mass work, working out, running, none of the quickness. These modules would fall on their asses against trained CIA agents. Do not tell me they are comparable. Lies. Don't believe any of it.
That's why you only see 4 stars altho most of it is very compelling and interesting. I liked it hard to put down but some parts are just overboard, I like my material to be coherent and mostly as real as possible even if dealing with abstract ideas.
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