This is sy fy and I didn't mind it too much. This guy Caswell has been sent on a journey thru a black hole or worm hole to another planet, he'd been there before but a technology implant is in his neck to erase his memory. He doesn't remember killing anyone on any of his "jobs". He's sort of a futuristic mercenary for a woman Warden named Monique. Some people are on Earth but from another planet making sure that each one speaks English (even tho everyone on Earth does NOT speak English). So he lands on another planet called Gartien and meets up with a female spy (I think) named Melni. They become partners in the task of killing off Alia somebody who is trying to upgrade the Gartiens with new technology defying a group called Prime, which Monique is part of, as even Caswell is part of which you don't learn till the end but his entire thinking changes over the length of the novel.
Some things were confusing like using blixxing as a swear word, Sometimes they are wearing or using gear that is incomprehensible and the descriptions lack enough detail so it leaves you thinking, "whatever" and you go right past it. At one point Caswell forgets how to use a gun, and believes he's never killed anyone even tho he turns beer bottles backwards in the fridge so he knows how many people he's killed on his missions. So that didn't make sense.
On page 440 after an unexpected event occurred he had sent a transmission recorded before everything happened and sent it to Earth. That was an impossibility. I didn't get how they could record something they didn't know would happen. Caswell spent so much of the early parts of the story without food or water yet managed somehow to live. I don't understand that either. He couldn't eat the food on Gartien due to bacteria (he thinks) and I have no idea how he could survive weeks without food or drink. It boggles the mind. Anyway the end is satisfactory. The story had a beginning, middle and end. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't edge of the seat thrilling either. It had no humor in it really, takes itself very seriously. I tend to compare SyFy with Adams. Sorry writer.
I would get it at the library. It's a large book so don't let it fall on your head.
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