content: Others have summed up this book rather well: it's beyond pathetic. Take an interesting idea, and add in implausible plotlines, undeveloped characters, a completely unconvincing ending, and gratuitous right wing polemic, and you've got a book like this. It is really sad because the author showed a lot of promise with his early novels, which are worth reading. Unless Robinson wises up, he's lost a lot of his readership, myself included.