A review by vkemp
Skinner by Charlie Huston

4.0

Skinner works for Terence who runs Kestrel. Skinner is a product of his parents' psychological experiments as a child and he never learned emotions. He works in "asset protection," a bodyguard who will kill anyone who makes an attempt on his asset's life. The beginning of the book deals with a case gone bad and Skinner disappears for six years, but Terence calls him back to protect Jae, a genius who can see patterns in her head who builds robots. Terence has been forced out at Kestrel and Cross and Haven have taken over. When Terence is killed in Paris after meeting with Skinner and laying out the plan, Skinner knows Cross and Haven are dirty, too. Now, he is on the run with Jae, helping her read the patterns between a cyber attack that almost takes down the East Coast power grid and a small city in India. This read is an adrenaline-laced adventure teetering between spycraft and technological mayhem.