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As a social historian, Mate makes a very good doctor. Addiction and bad parenting do not "appear" in the historical record, so they must bot have existed, or existed in much smaller doses? Historical analysis based on "primary records" is nostalgia with footnotes.

I could do without cliffhangers in a novel.

Well, if nothing else, this book is a marvelous palliative for anyone hoping the "grown-ups" were ever at work in Washington in selfless service.

"Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” - Janet Malcolm

Between the indulgences in military death cults and the weird battle-cry-to-sneaking-off juxtaposition, this one really isn't doing it for me.

"Meanwhile, two hours, six Boilermakers, an order of nachos, and a bar fight with a club-footed snitch named "Third Base" later..."

When you miss a moon-sized object and accidentally destroy your own moon - that's how you know you're in a 40k story, and that the dumb has no upper limit.

Well, if nothing else, the first part of the book promises the text will be endlessly quotable.

Ironic that a book on the Black Templars would make me appreciate the Salamanders more.