Review: Story not as advertised by title
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2013
From the title, one would think this was more about creating an interstellar government and solving the problems on Earth. This isn't even close to true. The story is about a mercenary group that has been hired by one of the post-UN governments on a colony planet to help train a native army. Not one but two different insurrections make up the bulk of the story and almost all of the action. The protagonist is a small time character from the first book in this universe, then Captain Andrew Nolte now Captain-General of the Legion of the Dispossessed. The politics of the book are the same as the first with a couple of twists, socialist and ultra-progressive. They are also fairly simplistic. The story is fairly tense and doesn't develop quite how you would expect, keeping the reader interested in the plot-line. Overall, I enjoyed the novel more than I did the first.