John Birmingham - Weapons of Choice

Don't remember where I saw a plug for this but I ordered it has a used book and gave it a read. Books 2 and 3 (3 just came out) seemed to get out more pub then this one. Throw out the blatant plot usage of the movie "Final Countdown" and move on through the book and it does have some interesting points. The Clancy like descriptions of future weapons is excellent (I had a thing for the early Clancy but he turned into a soap opera writer in his later works...gag). Great first book. Did some wikipedia of the author and discovered he is an Australia with some writing pedigree. Also discovered the book while being a SF alternative history book also had some social commentary. Throughout the book the two things that really stick out is how racist the 1940s were and in the future due to the constant war we are in with the middle east how harden the people have become. Will be interesting to see how the other 2 books develop. I give this a thumbs up!