Schemata

A "hero hunts MacGuffin, gets into trouble, maybe out of it" tech yarn. Has literary merit the way high-gloss pornography has artistic merit.

The paint-by-numbers:

"Agent Eric Gray has seen better nights (and a lot of better days) when a midnight call to duty revives an uneasy past and leads him onto an all-in quest of personal revenge, between rogue agents and a radical sect, towards an high-tech artifact that could spell salvation--or damnation--for mankind as we know it."

That's the B-movie trailer voice over blurb. Or Men's Health literature section abstract. The book itself might even have literary merit, even though perhaps the way high-gloss porn has artistic merit. Exciting, thrilling, funny, scary, sad, painful, uplifting, downcasting and a myriad of other inductions. A ride of constant offerings and more than just speed -- and even more platitudes. +1.