So Harry Harrison is one of my favourite authors of all time. The Deathworld trilogy and The Stainless Steel Rat series, both by Harrison, are among my all time favourites. So it pains me to say I was underwhelmed by this book.
It starts promisingly enough, some super science with a bit of intrigue and mystery set during the cold war. But it fizzles out a third of the way through the book after an excellent and slightly surreal scene on the moon. Politics, spies and some poorly drawn characters take over and fail to engage. By the time the climax rolled around I didn’t care about the characters at all.