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Capital Offense: 3 (Merchant Prince)

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This book is essentially a 350-page diatribe about human rights abuses by the government that are allowed to happen in the name of the war against terror--although in this book it's the war against aliens. The first book in the trilogy, The Merchant Prince, was a fun read. The second, The Merchant Prince Volume 2: Outrageous Fortune, was also interesting although a bit more serious. Capital Offense, however, is nothing more than a rant by the author. I'm not going to judge his take on the matter, and actually found it to be pretty convincing, but what I wanted and expected was more of what I read in the original Merchant Prince.

This is also the only book of the trilogy where Armin Shimerman (who played Quark in Star Trek and Principal Snyder in Buffy) did all the writing. In the first two books, he paired with experienced science fiction authors. The difference is telling, not in the quality of the writing but in the quality of the plot.