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Use of Weapons
by Iain M. Banks
Digging into the "Special Circumstances" that come with spreading The Culture, we find out building a Utopia sure does involve a lot of manipulation and violence!
This is the third book of Iain M. Banks' Culture series and also the third I've read. It chronicles -non-chronologically- the experiences of Cheradenine Zakalwe, who is recruited by The Culture to be something of a special agent. He is tasked with intervening in the affairs of non-Culture entities, often involving tipping the scales in conflicts without ever letting on that the Culture is involved. To the point that it's comical, Zakalwe seems to wind up dead-ish and revived by the Culture's super medicine after each operation.
This is the third book of Iain M. Banks' Culture series and also the third I've read. It chronicles -non-chronologically- the experiences of Cheradenine Zakalwe, who is recruited by The Culture to be something of a special agent. He is tasked with intervening in the affairs of non-Culture entities, often involving tipping the scales in conflicts without ever letting on that the Culture is involved. To the point that it's comical, Zakalwe seems to wind up dead-ish and revived by the Culture's super medicine after each operation.