Another one from my "Tor summer freebies" collection. This was...okay. It takes place on another planet, which has been cut off from spacefaring/most really good technology for hundreds of years due to a fight between humanity and another species, the Teotl. Now the Teotl, and the Azteca (the name alone pretty much tells you who you're dealing with- human sacrifice galore) are making war on the rest of the humans. Back in the Capital City, new leader Dihana and her city general try to stop them.
Our hero is one John de Brun, a guy with one hand, who mysteriously doesn't age, and hasn't remembered jack squat since washing up on the shore 27 years ago. He's now settled down with a wife and family when the Azteca come. Two guys are hunting for him- one Azteca spy to "get the codes for the Ma Wi Jung" out of him and then to kill him, and another guy (Pepper) to do something somewhat similar. Who, exactly, is on his side? And what the heck has the guy been unable to remember for 27 years? As the world edges closer to destruction, John has to go on a quest that only he can do.
I dunno. It was okay reading, but I don't feel that strongly about it or massively attached to any of the characters. (And the language is...well, for a Caribbean accent, it's hard to get at times.) It's more about the action than the personalities.
Three stars.
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