Review: Review of Asteroid Outpost
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2013
Asteroid OutpostA brand new Federal Marshal lands at his assigned outpost and within hours makes the front page gossip world when he outwits (and physically damages) the neighborhood tavern bully. Over the next three days he'll kill a couple more people, rescue two kidnapped girls and have sex with two high profile women c.without sleepingcmuchcand then he goes on to take over control of the most prominent business on the asteroid while arresting its most noted criminals.What is the quote from Star Trekc"where no man has gone before"?  That definitely holds true for Asteroid Outpost.  Yet one is constantly reminded of those old west stories about gambling and robbing and helping women in distress (tough women, but women in need of help, none-the-less) and the good guys with their six shooters and stately steeds who always arrest the bad guysY after they've beaten them up a bit and made the bad guy feel guilty (even if only a smidge guilty).  All that is missing from the Old West in Asteroid Outpost is the white hat.  But we know who he is even if he wears a black hat and carries a RU-Hawk .44 strapped to his hip.The action in Asteroid Outpost begins on page one and continues until the final page with zingers and twists and even some comedy in the midst of a mystery imbedded with unspeakable evil.  The suspense is thrilling; the characters are totally believable; and I found myself rooting for the good Marshal in every incident.John Bowers describes his characters well and he knows how to keep the reader so connected to the story that it is as if you are a bystander witnessing every incident first hand.This is the first of John Bowers's books that I have read.  It most certainly will not be the last.  He definitely has me half in love with Nick Walker and wanting to read a lot more of his adventures.