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Drake returns with great success to the pattern of his best military sf novels. After a near-suicidal operation, an elite company of recon troops has been "redlined" --declared pyschologically unfit. A complex and somewhat improbable experiment is mounted to save them: they will escort a column of civilians across an intensely hostile world to a final confrontation at an alien biological warfare center. This scenario proves the foundation of an excellent book, full of Drake's usual superb action scenes and ingenious weapons and menaces. Drake also does considerably better by his characters, both civil and military (including the women): even one of his stock-in-trade personae, the guilt-obsessed trooper, takes on new life under the name of Caius Blohm. This is, far and away, the prolific Drake's best book since The Sharp End (1993).
Drake returns with great success to the pattern of his best military sf novels. After a near-suicidal operation, an elite company of recon troops has been "redlined" --declared pyschologically unfit. A complex and somewhat improbable experiment is mounted to save them: they will escort a column of civilians across an intensely hostile world to a final confrontation at an alien biological warfare center. This scenario proves the foundation of an excellent book, full of Drake's usual superb action scenes and ingenious weapons and menaces. Drake also does considerably better by his characters, both civil and military (including the women): even one of his stock-in-trade personae, the guilt-obsessed trooper, takes on new life under the name of Caius Blohm. This is, far and away, the prolific Drake's best book since The Sharp End (1993).
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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.
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