Jury Garrett, retired police officer and now P.I. Is asked to locate a missing husband who is a few days late returning from delivering a paper at a technology conference in Brussels. Despite Garrett's reservations, he begins digging into the man's life and work, discovering the man was both lead engineer and owner of his own company, and was developing a new type of chip and associated software for sophisticated types of problems where one could apply artificial intelligence. Jury quickly finds mob and army connections to the case, and has increasing concerns about what the missing man was actually doing.

The plot was fast-moving and kept me interested. Plus, I liked how the author delivered technical information to the reader: plain, uncomplicated terms and easy to understand explanations about the implications of the use of artificial intelligence to the types of problems the engineer wanted to solve.
I was less enamoured by the characters, whose portrayals felt a little too simple and not complicated enough to be real people. Otherwise, an enjoyable, pretty quick read.

Thank you to Netgalley and to Greenleaf Book Group for this ARC in exchange for my review.

Pretty good. This doesn't have the polish of a more experience author, but it is a good story and premise. The setting will pull some in -- Austin. I stayed mostly engaged, and suspect many thriller fans will like this.

Thanks very much for the free review copy!!

This is a thriller introducing private eye/former police officer Jury Garrett. Garrett is reluctant to take on a missing person's case when Walter Kinlaw's wife calls about his failure to return home from a conference in Germany. Walter is a tech genius whose work has captured the attention of the U.S. military. His company suddenly shut down even though it appeared to be successful. His credit shot, he borrowed money from a mob-type lender and he's missed his payment. So, his wife, the military and a couple of mob collection guys are all interested in Walter and Garrett manages to find out some very dangerous information along the way that leads to a surprise ending. The story is fine. I'm well-educated but some of the tech stuff is above my pay grade, even though Rhyne tries hard to bring it down to lay person descriptions.The characters are also fine. The writing is okay, but not engaging. This whole story could be told better and the characters made more real. I could not connect to anyone, even though I could tell I would have connected to them and their backstories if they were told a little differently. Usually, I can pinpoint the issue I have with someone's writing choices. I THINK that because virtually every sentence is a declarative sentence, I never got close to the people or caught up in the story. It wasn't exactly badly written. It just was not a page turner.