Review: A manipulated man
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 23, 2013
The action is good, if sometimes less than believable. There are only two characters with any substance: the hero and the assassin.  The assassin's character falls apart when he is mentally taken over.  The hero is manipulated by all around him, deliberately kept in the dark because, although they claim t revere him, they do not trust him. This tactic is responsible for almost everything bad that happens in the book, beyond the excellent 1st segment when he is still his un-manipulated self.The two warring factions of a "secret" master race (though with all the chaos they cause, it is hard to imagine how they stay secret) profess to have different goals, but their action towards humans are remarkably similar.  The main difference seems to be that the bad-guy faction is open, up front and brutal about it, while the good guys have self-deluding rationalizations to cover their unwillingness to be helpful.Still, it is a good read, despite annoyance at the idiotic motivations, irrational actions and  inexplicable incompetence of the good guys, so I might read the next book, providing it is not more than $0.99.