"Wise up, it's the 21st century and global warming is here to stay. Forget the way your country used to look. Get used to the free market, the companies have all the best hardware -- they're calling the shots now...

"Live with the heat. In a world like this a man open to any offers can make out just fine. Greg Mandel: Psi Boosted, wired into the latest sensory equipment, carrying state of the art weaponry. Veteran of Gulf War II. Late of the English Army's Mindstar Battalion.

"As the cartels battle for control of a revolutionary new power source and corporate greed outstrips national security, the tension mounts to boiling point and Greg Mandel is about to find out if he's up to the ultimate test." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1993]

"Hawkish perspective with an element of right-wing propoganda. I found this first novel somewhat disappointing." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space, 1995).