Might be some spoilers ahead.

Review: Billionaire Maximum Fend, fighting international crime, banging a hot chick while building super AIs to go to the moon and stuff. YAY! Insert poor defwensless Peruvian immigrants escaping a fat whale-man narco traffiker. They wade across the Rio Grande and lose themselves and each other in the process. OH, THE HUMANITY!!. Meanwhile a wittle Peruvian waif carries a super secret rock thing, THAT COULD SHATTER ALL WE KNOW AND SEND US INTO KAOS!!!

Well, kaos would have been the best thing that happened to this novel as there is no creative intent imbued within the story line. First you have to buy into the fact that we really went to the moon when all evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. After you buy that load of shjt, then buy into a theory that the moon is the cradle of all life and bam, you are bored out of your freakin' mind.

I shjt you not, you can read the first three chapters, skip to midway and skip to the end, and nothing changes. It is the same thing. Where is this brilliance of the girl from Peru? She licks a rock and...? And why would Delta Force and the military let a douche bag billionaire onto a plane to whack bad guys? That sounds like maximum risk to me. GET IT?

I received this ARC for an honest review.

1.4/5

This is the second book in the Maximum Drive series and Chris Bauer has carried it off very well. Billionaire Max Fend and Fend Aerospace are working to get the Artemis Mars lander to an operational state while facing a myriad of obstacles and challenges. This story is intertwined with that of Augustina (Gus) Gomez. Gus is a young immigrant from Peru that was separated from her family while entering the United States. She carries a small leather pouch with a talisman in it that could alter the way that mankind looks at the universe.
Soon Max and Gus’ stories are to become hopelessly tangled.
A must read.