Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley

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Do you ever start reading a book because it has a really cool premise about a multiplicity of universes and the one main universe is called the Real and everything else is a sheaf. And the Real Universe subjugates the other universes to make itself rich and powerful. The real universe is able to do this by using gates it invented called Turing gates. In the Real Universe Turing emigrated to the United States rather than get involved in breaking the Enigma code. And our universe isn't the Real Universe, it's known as the Nixon Universe. So you read it. And it's about this ex-Spy who works for the company. The Company works much like the CIA in destabilizing enemy regimes. But our guy has quit and yet he's called back in when his old partner Tom is going around killing people. So our guy, Stone, starts going through the different Sheaves. And he catches Tom and Tom convinces him to help him because of some Black Ops project called the Gypsy project run by rogue elements of the company. Gypsy you eventually learn is going to set off a nuke in the past to remake the Real universe. Because they find this weird device from the future that lets you use the Turing gates not only to travel through universes but through time as well.But the Device hates the people who use it and causes them pain and the Device has some Agenda that it's trying to enforce but never clarified. And Stone's agenda is mainly to get back at the rogue company men who killed his soon to be girlfriend in one of the sheaves. But he has to work with Tom because Tom knows more than he is telling about what is going. So they run from Sheave to Sheave and time frame to time frame. Tom also has to save his daughter. And Tom and Stone keeping getting separated and every Time they get back together, Tom tells Stone he has to trust him. Stone usually holds a gun on Tom and tries to get him to tell the truth. But Tom is wiley and escapes. So your reading and your starting to lose track of who is who and what time frame you are in and who are the bad guys and is this the earlier Tom or the later Tom and should we trust Tom's daughter? After awhile you really stop caring and you just hope the author would decide what the heck is going on and your head is starting to hurt from keeping track of characters and plots you don't really care about. Until mercifully the book abruptly ends without any real resolution? Well, that would be Cowboy Angels for you.