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None-military SciFi buffs should read this strangely poignant, if extremely violent, novel. (Authors surprise you every once in a while.) Drake is amoung those very few really good military scifi writers, yet this is an anti-war novel. What do societies do when diplomacy fails and simple existence itself is at stake? It will fight to survive. But who, in a sophisticated and generally peaceful people, is willing to be the sharpened point of the spear? To slaughter with no quarter. Well, those very few citizens whose psych profile touches or goes over The Redline will do, even knowing that this will put them beyond the pale and mark them as less than human. You civilians should keep in mind that War- all out WAR- shows us at our best and worst, and Drake has captured this. "Redliners" is serious literature. There is hope for Humanity.
