Saturday, September 14, 2013

Book Excerpt for the Day


    It’s because this is a comprehensible job, he thought.  No huge amorphous army, where he had to leave a dozen crucial things a day in the hands of men he had never fought battles beside; no not-quite-omniscient computer angel to show him unassailable reasons for doing things he despised; no snakepit spy-hive of a city . . . just a cavalry patrol into hostile country, go in, get the information and get out.  Succeed or die.

 
    (from The Forge by S.M. Stirling & David Drake)

    8½*/10.  The complete review is here.
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