Unlike the first two books in this series, there is some character development in this one and a couple of likeable characters. There are other issues, though. The repeated premise that humanity is dependent on salvage makes little sense. Humans here are portrayed has being competent, educated, and technologically sophisticated, at least on many colonial worlds. Certainly they could reverse engineer those things they could no longer import. Up until the final chapter, this was looking like a strong three-star book, but the ending was not satisfying and, in fact, pages of it were cut-and-paste from scenes from the second book. ( )

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