Richard Steinberg

Hard man seeks justice in a future world. One of two men who were selected and trained to take advantage of their genetic advantages in strategy, strength, thinking, speed finds conscience and retires from assassination jobs to wander the world and offer services to those who were forsaken and needing help. He is drawn into agency intrigue again and is pitted against his alter-ego, the second 4 Phase Man. Their mechanizations ranged the full extent of possible weapons and world geographical areas ending with a personal confrontation. The internal conflict that both major characters were affected with, added a good contrast between their individual ethical natures. It also added a worthwhile dimension to the story. An action packed story that keeps the pages turning with a surprising ending. The world that is created could be one of our futures. Treat yourself to this book!… (altro)

This was pretty good. The bit above about traveling with a beautiful reporter implies the two of them will hook up and throughout the novel; I was waiting for that to happen and make the rest of the book become stale and repetitive. It didn’t happen. Greg and the reporter hardly spoke two words to each other.

There was only one bit of writing style that really got to me and I thought was cheese. He would describe the speaker or the focus of the sentence as ‘the experienced thief’ or ‘the young thief” or ‘the experienced Gypsy seducer’ – it drove me nuts. Also he made up the word ‘sluffed’ instead of sloughed. I mean, get a dictionary man!… (altro)