Tin Men is action packed military scifi that waves big ideas around, but never really moves away from its pulpy roots.

In the near future, the only thing keeping the peace are the robotic soldiers of America's Remote Infantry Corps, who patrol dozens of bushfire zones with their operators safely in bunkers under Germany. When a cadre of global anarchists detonate an EMP bomb that wipes out all technology, Tin Man Danny Kelso discovers that they aren't remotely operating the bots, their consciousness has been transferred to the bots. If he and his squad of diverse stereotypes want to get back to their bodies, they'll have to fight his way from Damascus to the base in Germany, all while being chased by 'bot killer' anarchists with a grudge, carrying an ambassador's daughter, and oh yeah, proving that they're Bad Enough 'Bots To Save The President, who's at a G-20 summit in Athens.

There are some good gunfights, but the ideas and characters never really go anywhere, personality traits standing in for things like American global hegemony, anarchy as a reaction, and standard milSF tropes like honor and duty. Shame that I read this so close to The Red: First Light, because this novel comes off as worse in every way.