Title: I didn't think Jerry Pournelle could write a bad book...
Review: ...but this is it. Recycling old plots is an honored sci-fi tradition, but here Pournelle and Stirling combine at least two or three and can't really make a unified whole out of them. I found the "Casablanca" references distracting, the Kzinti childrens' quarters irrelevant, and the Thrint subplot extraneous, and (as in "The Stone Dogs") even Stirling couldn't give me a believable, comprehensible war in space. If you're a known space fan you've read a lot of this, and you don't need to read it again.
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