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5.0 out of 5 starsIs is treachery when everyone else does it too?
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2019
This book is pretty dystopian. There's a lot of dark - many of the characters are flawed and defective (literally) - and the overall environment is that of festering corruption and a lack of positive ethics or indeed anything other than might is right.
Our hero in the book fits in well. He's been genetically engineered to be better than most but has grown up in a space station slum where he's had to work one scam after another to survive and get ahead. Then he gets a chance to leave it behind, but that chance is to work on an enforcer ship headed by a highly driven - and highly flawed - captain/commodore.
The ship is a mess, the corruption in the system is endemic but the captain has a dream - that she will be a planetary governor and grant land to everyone in her crew. To that end she's willing to do what it takes to assist the other rulers in the galaxy - the superhumans - in their various internecine squabbles.
But yet despite all that, and despite our hero's willing assistance in some of these shady tasks, somehow he gains morality and then has to decide whether to continue to support his captain in her unethical acts and betrayals.
