Title: War Ain't Pretty - Neither Is This Book
Product review: Leo Frankowski answers the time old question of what happens when a good author goes bad. Into a future feudalistic society in which Serbians and Croatians are still killing each other, Frankowski dumps "hero" Micholai Derdowski on an unsuspecting reader. Forcibly enlisted into the Kashubian military and held prisoner by his Mark XIX AI controlled battletank, Frankowski tells a chauvinistic, racially stereotyped story where the super-moral Mickolai can do no wrong, never has to think too much, and is never in any serious danger. With only brief flashes of potentially stunning plot turns that are never realized, Frankowski's book is a bigger bomb then anything launched by his Mark XIX. Cardboard characters, uninteresting pontification, weak dialogue and an obvious conclusion all leave the reader wondering why they bothered in the first place.
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