Review: A book that is not very good and not up to Frank Herbert's quality of storytelling!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2014
I am a real fan of Sci-Fi and of Frank Herbert.  His book Dune is one of the great classics of Sci-Fi.  This story is not up to his standards.  Frankly it was like he was being paid to write a story of so many words for a magazine and he suddenly realized that he needed to finish so the story quickly and abruptly ends.The story starts off well like one of Andre Norton's space interplanetary exploration teams making first contact with a new race.  The man assigned the task of making first contact knows the new race cannot be trusted and he knows that they have captured a space ship.  Suddenly within a few questions he solves the puzzle of where the ship is and turns the tables on his captor.  The story ends so quickly it makes you wonder why you wasted your time reading it.  It is only about 30 minutes of reading time so if you have an interest in the book then go ahead and enjoy it.  I am just glad that I didn't pay for the book.