Audio Book Version.
This is an amazing book. The opening must be a prologue. I don't like them so much. Many don't seem to have any relation to the book. As this one didn't.
A man regains consciousness as he is falling to an ocean. He has no memory. Doesn't know who he is or why he is falling. He hits the water and dies. (reset) Then he is falling again. He dies. (reset) This happens many times until he works out a way to hit the water and survive. There is a woman edging him on. He dies (resets?) many, many times attempting to complete each task. He kills many people, they kill him, he masters how to kill them all. He is pushed past breaking and is rebuilt. With every death, he learns more. Learns from his mistakes. Completing one task, he is faced with another, more brutal than the last. He has a goal to reach a town called Discovery.
High impact action. Tight, taunt writing, and a storyline that keeps one engaged.
One more thing: it's a time travel story. And a brilliant one.
And it has many one liners, placed perfectly.
This is my first R. R. Haywood book and it was brilliant. I will check out the Undead and Extraction series.
Discovery is a town run by an AI called, The Old Lady. Humanity is extinct and The Old Lady believes it wasn't one event, it was many small events throughout time. She built an army. All new recruits are brought in for training.
The man is named, Bear. His trainer, is Roshi. There's an Australian Doctor Lucy and a Diner owner, also there is Zara and James. This rounds out the main characters and Mr. Haywood does a brilliant job of making us care about them. Each character has a skill, Zara is smart and logical, James is American and has the gift of the gab.
Zara, James and Bear. There was a forth, Thomas, but he couldn't cope with a harrowing task and was reassigned.
Get this book. You'll love it.
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