Review: Not what it claims to be.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
This isn't the SF / alternate history police procedural it claims to be.  While it starts out interestingly enough, the once the author finds a character whom he can lecture to, the book turns into a long lecture on the troubles of democracy, the nature of war and the benefits available to a culture if only you could be smart enough to have everyone live over 600 years...Sadly, most of the lecture turns out to be irrelevant to us, because we don't.Once the lecture starts, none of the action has any cause, the hero merely jumps from place to place without us understanding any of the why, he defeats all the opponents, and triumphs. Boring Boring Boring.Suggestion:  Go read something else.  Waste of time.