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Excellent action SF novel.
While investigating very strange conflict on remote planet Lex Falk, our hero journalist, decides to take one additional step and using very complicated interface becomes one with the professional soldier engaged on [what was advertised as] a simple recon run.
Reason why Lex is given access to the hi-tech is very simple. Interplanetary corporation with a foothold on the planet feels endangered by two power blocks (reminiscent of Cold War blocks) who are very interested in the corporate owned planet but in their actions take no prisoners (imagine UN protectorate forces from Takeshi Kovacs novels investigating the planet ... not something anybody would want). Something is going on but nobody is sure what.
While first chapters are rather slow starting somewhere from the second third reader will get drawn into non-stop action, corporate plots (this is world where "I am OK" is expressed as "I am wealthy" and people tend to use corporate-centric cyber implants that can even censure bad words using registered/trade-marked expressions :)) and ruthless interplanetary governments that treats all settlers as collateral damage when higher goals are in question.
Actions seems so real and so close, and nobody is safe. I was truly at the edge of my seat never knowing what will happen to our motley crew. I have not felt this way since I read David Drake's Redliners.
Excellent SF action novel, highly recommended.
While investigating very strange conflict on remote planet Lex Falk, our hero journalist, decides to take one additional step and using very complicated interface becomes one with the professional soldier engaged on [what was advertised as] a simple recon run.
Reason why Lex is given access to the hi-tech is very simple. Interplanetary corporation with a foothold on the planet feels endangered by two power blocks (reminiscent of Cold War blocks) who are very interested in the corporate owned planet but in their actions take no prisoners (imagine UN protectorate forces from Takeshi Kovacs novels investigating the planet ... not something anybody would want). Something is going on but nobody is sure what.
While first chapters are rather slow starting somewhere from the second third reader will get drawn into non-stop action, corporate plots (this is world where "I am OK" is expressed as "I am wealthy" and people tend to use corporate-centric cyber implants that can even censure bad words using registered/trade-marked expressions :)) and ruthless interplanetary governments that treats all settlers as collateral damage when higher goals are in question.
Actions seems so real and so close, and nobody is safe. I was truly at the edge of my seat never knowing what will happen to our motley crew. I have not felt this way since I read David Drake's Redliners.
Excellent SF action novel, highly recommended.