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Back in the brutal world of Takeshi Kovacs. I enjoyed the writing that just plunges you into this dark and grimy future with all its tech, weapons and warring factions, without taking much of a breath to ease you into it. Kovacs' cynical voice is fun read. And the whole book seems a meditation on the nature of war and why we fight them and why we might never escape them.

The Martians felt like a new further-out, slightly mystical level to this scifi world. Which was a bit surprising. And the ending is a bit unclear to me. Why'd he attach so tightly to his “pack” from the expedition and could so easily kill his old “pack”? Does his wolf conditioning only apply to recent memory?

3.5