Like the first two novels, a quick read. It's good to get back to John Perry! The parts of this story feel separated - colonists; colonizing a new world; dealing with problems introduced in the first two parts.

Yes, problems. This book has wheels within wheels - a feature of more than one of my recent reads. Like assuming certain science-fiction truths, I assume the conspiracies here are feasible, even if they wouldn't be in real life.

Our protagonist, John Perry, ends up a bit like Clancy's Jack Ryan - he is really lucky and has just the right responses. That said, I like him as a character (a lot more than Ryan) and really enjoyed this particular romp.

Very much looking forward to reading the same story from Zoe's point of view, which is the next book in the series. In the meantime, I have two of the short stories which fit in between books to zip through.