Title: The spiritual heir to Starship Troopers
Product review: There's a pretty good novel in this book, swaddled in pages upon pages of simplistic political yammering about the greatness of the warrior ethic. The book raises some troubling questions about its rah-rah Spartan ethic - why, for example, should such a noble culture /need/ a squad of assassins to take care of internal dissidents - but doesn't bother to answer them. Instead, everything gets drenched in blood and rhetoric about how great it is to be a dead Spartan. When Pressfield abandons the demagoguery, the book is a pleasure to read. Unfortunately, that's only about a third of a time.
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