Use of Weapons
(Libby/OverDrive eBook, Kindle)
Author
Contributors
Banks, Iain M. Author
Series
Culture Universe series volume 3
Published
Orbit , 2008.
Status
Checked Out
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Description
Called back from early retirement by Special Circumstances, the elite weapon of the Culture's policy of moral espionage, Cheradenine Zakalwe reluctantly returns to work, but his fatal flaw could cost them the battle. Reprint.
More Details
Format
eBook, Kindle
Street Date
12/22/2008
Language
English
ISBN
9780316150712, 9780316068796
Subjects
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Published Reviews
Booklist Review
Banks' latest novel of the far-future Culture reads like a successful crossbreeding of Star Wars and Len Deighton. It has the breakneck pacing and space-opera spectacle of the first and the detail and realistic, even pessimistic, characterization of the second. The plot re~volves around a futuristic version of the classic burned-out secret agent who's dragged back into harness and who's got a strong desire to settle old scores with employers who used him up and threw him away. The complexity of the Culture universe is likely to daunt some readers, and having read the previous Culture opus, Consider Phlebas (Bantam, 1991), won't help all that much. It will, however, likely have given readers a taste for Banks' original takes on old themes. Highly recommended. ~--Roland Green
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Banks, I. M. (2008). Use of Weapons . Orbit.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Banks, Iain M. 2008. Use of Weapons. Orbit.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Banks, Iain M. Use of Weapons Orbit, 2008.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Banks, I. M. (2008). Use of weapons. Orbit.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Banks, Iain M. Use of Weapons Orbit, 2008.
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