The Chaos Agent (Gray Man): Greaney, Mark: 9780593548172: Amazon.com: Books

Good read. Great continuation in the Gray Man series. Leaves the reader awaiting the next book in the series with a good plot line.

Now, in a totally new flavor for the Grey Man series, a billionaire inventor and programming genius decides that autonomous artificial intelligence will develop soon, so he ought to create it first, the “right way”, and it will eliminate bad humans and the whole world would be rosy. AI will control the earth as a benign god-force. As predicted in other such novels, the autonomous AI goes wildly out of control, and a large battle ensues. It is pretty well done - again with periodic narrative from Zach Hightower - and good, exciting story. But who will be lost in this war?

Mark Greaney’s The Gray Man series is BY FAR the book release I look forward to most every year, and this one is very much worth the wait.The book opens with Court and Zoya, taking some time off laying low and living life in Guatemala, when a group starts murdering all the world’s foremost AI scientists and researchers around the world. When an old friend of Zoya’s reaches out to her for help in getting one of the scientists to safety, it results in Court and Zoya becoming unwitting targets. In an effort to get the targets off their backs, they approach the problem in the way that they are able to. In the process, involving the best characters from the series including Don Fitzroy, Matt Hanley, Chris Travers, Zack Hightower and Angela Lacy.This book is terrifying and fun all at the same time. It is tightly paced, with action sequences that flow, and plot and pacing that makes this book impossible to put down. The subject matter, while fiction is firmly rooted in reality, and I would encourage you to research the singularity, or the unforeseen and unanticipated choices AI is already making in research. One of my favorite things about Mark Greaney is that I have never bought one of his books and felt like I got ripped off. He never jumped on the “I can just crank out poorly researched 300 page books” bandwagon, and his books always show effort and pedigree, and I appreciate it. All of his characters are well developed and are written in a way where you wish you could have a beer with them in some alternate world. If you have never read a Gray Man book before, I am very jealous of you, because you are not going to be disappointed. There is something in this book for everyone. Although you may get less sleep than normal, because it’s that hard to put down.