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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780061057953 ISBN: 0061057959 Label: HarperCollins Manufacturer: HarperCollins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: December 31, 1999 Publisher: HarperCollins Studio: HarperCollins Related Items:
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 Rating:  - More than just a shoot-em-up!The foreground story is more complicated and interesting than most military sci-fi. The people have believable, individual motivations, and the issues aren't black and white. There seems to be a LOT going on in the background, and not just the peculiar war against the mysterious aliens. I wish Fawkes had done more than just sketch in some of the governments, personalities, other interests that complicate things with their private agendas. Maybe this was deliberate, to whet our appetites for the rest of the trilogy (series)? If so, it worked for me. Rating: - This was a great SF book!This was a sci-fi book for the mind it was'nt so much action it was more, about getting into the minds of the charactors which is a welcome change to the old shoot-em up sci-fi books. Rating:  - Good new entry in Military SF fieldGood, in that it combines a relatively small amount of sterotypical military action (competently, if not thrillingly handled) with a real SF mystery. Clearly has some bugs, e.g., what drives the xeno-sociologist character to "go native"? what happens to a couple of secondary characters at book's end? characterization can be a little flat (e.g. Stone); and just who is the wacky, mysterious billionaire/guru figure with the bad cryptic lines, other than an awkward device for moving the plot along? Despite some first novel quirks, I'll certainly buy the requisite sequel, if only because Fawkes has tried hard to add a little alieness and to a frequently stale SF sub-genre.  Try searching the Internet for "Face of the Enemy" or Ebay for "Face of the Enemy". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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