![]() ![]() ![]() The main storyline in this book is actually brief, and quite simple, and rather straight-forward. Simple enough as a story arc, you say? It is indeed, even with a few side threads and extra adventures thrown in. ![]() She is to find a former Special Circumstances mercenary called Cheradine Zakalwe, and convince him to come along on a mission to extract Tsoldrin Beyache, a pensioned-off ex-politician, and convince him to come out of retirement and use his name and influence to save the cluster he lives in from developmental regression into all-out war and accompanying barbary. Rasd-Coduresa Diziet Embless Sma da'Marenhide (known as Dizzy or Sma to her friends) is pulled out of an assignment at short, or rather, no notice. And it asks, between the lines, what is the use of weapons? And what does using weapons do to you as the user? But before I become overly philosophical here let's get back to the story for a bit. About how weapons can be used, and about what can be used as a weapon (Zakalwe, the main protagonist, uses weapons, but is also used as a weapon). This is a story, as the title indicates, about weapons. Use of Weapons is the 4th instalment in the loosely connected series of books in the Culture universe by Iain M Banks. "The bomb lives only as it's falling" (Slias Engin) ![]()
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