The Quick

By Burt Cole

Book Overview

The ultimate military science fiction novel about the ultimate warrior--a mercenary who fights to win and succeeds. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380711788
• ISBN13: 9780380711789
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.9" x 4.2" x 0.9"

Customer Reviews

INTELLIGENT AND BRUTAL!!!

Read this book!!! THE QUICK is a remarkable book of war about a true philospher-warrior named Shaman and his one-man fight against, perhaps, war itself. Throughout the novel, you never know whether Shaman is playing both sides to further his own ends, or whether is true purpose is to simply fight the good fight, or if he in fact believes there is a "good fight" to be fought in this or any war. Owing much to L. Ron Hubbard's FINAL BLACKOUT, this novel of war and its themes has been much updated to reflect our modern world. Burt Cole is a phenomenal writer with a gift for dialogue, for wordplay, for swift pacing, and elegant prose. He also has a gift for the absurd, for political ironies, and for military stupidity. The climax (again, owing a lot to FINAL BLACKOUT) leaves the reader with not only a sense of satisfaction, but with a question that transcends the novel's main themes.