Weapons of the Mind
Master your emotions. Perform your duty. Follow the Tenets. Tala has lived these rules for twenty years: the rules of an Enhancer. Then a mission goes wrong, and she finds herself framed, branded Renegade, and called to face judgment. Fleeing means violating the Tenets, the moral precepts of her order. Yet in that moment, she finds she cannot stay.
Hunted by the endless forces of the Galactic Coalition and her own mentor, famed Renegade killer Exemplar Scratch, Tala will pursue the proof of her innocence to the very heart of the galaxy. But cling as she might to the tatters of her honor, she cannot deny the true purpose of her mission: revenge. And the further Tala strays from the Tenets' path, the greater the risk she runs of losing herself.
In a galaxy of strange aliens and hostile humans, danger casts its shadow on every wall. Friendships are forged, lost, and tested. And the lies that keep the galaxy running just might be about to come crashing down.
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Weapons of the Mind is an awesome work of world-building, conjuring original territories, traditions, technologies, politics, and follies. But as the title promises, it's also a powerful work of mind-building. The narrative viewpoint threads from consciousness to consciousness, among human and alien "sapients," each with a unique grasp of a reality that's never exactly what it seems. The action alone would have kept me turning the pages, and I'm hotly anticipating the further adventures of Tala and her crew (and their minds) in next installment of the Renegades Trilogy. But Greenwald and Kivelson, in their seamlessly blended and masterful prose, add real moral and emotional depth to the action. Their obvious care for this fully realized world becomes the reader's. - Michael Macrone
Michael Macrone is the author of nine books on language, culture, and ideas, beginning with Brush Up Your Shakespeare! (Harper & Row, 1990) and also including By Jove! Brush Up Your Mythology (HarperCollins, 1992), Eureka! What Archimedes Really Meant and 80 Other Key Ideas Explained (HarperCollins, 1994), and Naughty Shakespeare (Andrews & McMeel, 1997).
--Michael Macrone
